essays, posts, & articles

This is a curated collection of my essays, blog posts, and articles, offering deep dives into a variety of topics and perspectives: pedagogy, anthropology, and more.

2024

2022

Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives 11 (1): 9-41
Susan D Blum, Terri Hebert, Gabrielle Robinson, Kirill Gillespie, Maeve Mallozzi-Kelly, Melissa Norberg, Saliyha Webb, and Jay B Brockman
Teachers Going Gradeless
In Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, 2nd edition (Times 10 Publications)
Edited by Starr Sackstein

2021

Times Higher Education THE Campus (Under development for publication)
Anthropology News 62(2): 14-18
American Journal of Human Biology 34 (S1)
Marc Kissel and Susan D. Blum

2020

Anthropology News
Inside Higher Ed
The TPHE Collective (Susan D Blum, Oscar Fernandez, Mays Imad, Ryan Korstange, Thomas F Nelson Laird, and Kate L. Pantelides)
In Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Edited by Susan D. Blum
In Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Edited by Susan D. Blum
In Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Edited by Susan D. Blum
In Korean Wave Beyond Nationality: Conflicts Over the Globalization of Korean Popular Culture (Korea University Press)
Edited by Yeonhee Yoon
In International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology (Wiley)
Susan D. Blum & Todd Patrick Marek, editor-in-chief James Stanlaw

2019

2018

In Discourse and Food: Entextualizing Foodways in Cultural Context
Edited by Kathleen C. Riley and Amy L. Paugh
Special Issue: Where is the Practice in Practicing Anthropology? Practicing Anthropology 40 (1): 26-28
Susan D. Blum, Asha Barnes, Kenzell Huggins, and Eric Haanstad

2017

Inside Higher Ed
American Society for Engineering Education. Paper ID #19079
Kenzell Huggins, Asha Barnes, Susan D Blum, Jay B Brockman, and Gary Allen Gilot
In Verbs, Bones and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature
Edited by Agustín Fuentes and Aku Visala

2016

Anthropology News
With Netta Avineri, Eric Johnson, Kathleen C. Riley, and Ana Celia Zentella
Huffington Post
With Netta Avineri, Suzanne Carcia-Mateus, and Ana Celia Zentella
In the Springer Handbook of Academic Integrity
Edited by Tracey Bretag

2015

American Anthropological Association AAA Blog
China Policy Institute Blog, University of Nottingham
Peeps Magazine
In From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader. 3rd edition
Edited by Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 25 (1): 74-75. Invited Forum: “Bridging the ‘Language Gap’

2014

2013

2012

2011

Society for Linguistic Anthropology blog

2010

1981-2009

Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 55, issue 24)
2009
Chronicle of Higher Education
2007
In China’s Transformations: The Stories beyond the Headlines
Edited by Lionel M. Jensen and Timothy B. Weston
2007
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology
2006
Newsletter, Winter, Sweetland Writing Center, University of Michigan
2006
In The Contest of Language: Before and Beyond Nationalism
Edited by W. Martin Bloomer.
2005
Written by Theresa Davey, Anastasia Envall, Mark Gernerd, Tiffanné Mahomes, Maria Monroe, Jenna Nowak, Matthew Patricoski and Jacob Weiler
2004
In Les raisons de la ruse: Une perspective anthropologique et psychanalytique
Edited by Serge Latouche, Pierre-Joseph Laurent, Olivier Servais, and Michael Singleto
2004
In Language Policy in the People’s Republic of China: Theory and Practice since 1949
Edited by Minglang Zhou
2004
In China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom
Co-authored with Lionel M. Jensen
2002
In China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom
Edited by Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen
2002
Journal of Contemporary China
2002
In Key Terms in Language and Culture
Edited by Alessandro Duranti
2001
In China Beyond the Headlines
Edited by Timothy B. Weston and Lionel M. Jensen
2000
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 13, special issue on “Linguistic Form and Social Action”
1998
San Francisco Review of Books vol. VI, no. 5
1981