About

Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Susan D. Blum is a professor of anthropology who has written both about China and the US. Her work in recent decades has mostly focused on higher education, particularly in a trilogy of books – My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture, "I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College, and Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning – and an edited collection, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead). She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2004.

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Cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, multilingualism, deception and truth, childhood and education, plagiarism, food and culture, and social theory.

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Other Accomplishments & Recognitions
  • Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Distinguished Fellowship, “Wellbeing, Suffering, and Schooling” (Fall 2017)
  • University of Notre Dame Faculty Research Program Initiation Grant, “Assessing Authentic Nonformal Learning in Project-, Problem-, and Place-Based Internships,” Principal Investigator (2017–18) 
  • National Science Foundation, “The Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem: Reconceptualizing STEM Innovation, Teaching, and Learning,” Senior Co-Investigator (2016–18) 
  • William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families, University of Notre Dame, Faculty Affiliate (2016–present) 
  • Journal of Academic Integrity Editorial Board (2015–present) 
  • American Educational Research Journal Editorial Board (2015–present)