Books

Monographs and edited volumes.

Schoolishness: Educational Alienation and the Quest for Authentic Meaning. Susan D. Blum. In press. Cornell University Press.

A Theory of Public Higher Education Ryan Korstange; Susan D. Blum; Oscar Fernandez; Mays Imad; Thomas F. Nelson Laird; Kate L. Pantelides Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2021) 104 (2-3): 141–251. https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.104.2-3.0141

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.

Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.