Susan Blum
Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology
- Cultural, linguistic, and psychological anthropology
- Deception and truth
- Multilingualism
- Person and self
- Ethnicity, nationalism and identity
- Childhood and higher education
- Morality
- Well-being
- Justice
- Sustainability and food
- Anthropological theory
- China and Asia, the U.S.
- Cross-cultural comparison
Blum in the News
Inside Higher Ed
August 28, 2024
As learning management systems dominate, and students juggle competing priorities, Susan D. Blum asks, where is the joy, the adventure, the meaning?
Inside Higher Ed
January 29, 2024
OPINION: Susan D. Blum is a professor of anthropology at the University of 91吃瓜, holding concurrent appointments as a fellow in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the Institute for Educational Initiatives, the Eck Institute for Global Health, and the William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families.
Slate
January 19, 2024
“The answer is always the same: yes. You can use it, but you have to cite it because you didn’t write it,” said Susan Blum, a professor at the University of 91吃瓜 whose scholarship has focused on plagiarism and educational anthropology.
Vox
January 15, 2024
“Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words or ideas without giving them credit,” says Susan Blum, an anthropology professor at 91吃瓜 and the author of My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture.
The Guardian
January 08, 2024
“I don’t believe in churning everything through turnitin.com because that’s a mechanical way of doing things,” says Susan Blum, a professor of linguistic anthropology at 91吃瓜, referencing a go-to anti-plagiarism tool.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 04, 2024
We asked three experts who have researched and written about plagiarism and other academic-integrity issues to shed light on these and other questions. They are Susan D. Blum, an anthropology professor at the University of 91吃瓜 and author of My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 02, 2022
A recent collection on the subject, edited by Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at the University of 91吃瓜, features lively essays by teachers who’ve all put their particular stamp on the practice of de-emphasizing or abolishing grades.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 29, 2022
Since the 2020 release of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), the book’s editor, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at the University of 91吃瓜, has given a steady stream of presentations about ungrading, most of them over Zoom.
Times Higher Education
December 02, 2021
Susan D. Blum is a professor of anthropology and a fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of 91吃瓜.
BBC News
July 26, 2021
But as Susan D Blum's linguistic anthropology class found out, it makes having a natural conversation practically impossible.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 26, 2021
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The Wall Street Journal
November 27, 2020
Susan Blum, a professor who specializes in linguistic anthropology at the University of 91吃瓜, says Zoom fatigue was inevitable given how unnatural conversational patterns can get there: 鈥淰ideo calls do not allow any conversational overlap. You can鈥檛 say 鈥榤mm-hmm鈥� to assent because that would interrupt and put you on screen as the main speaker.鈥�