Doug Blum
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Columbia University
Brief Biography:
My recent work focuses on connections between globalization and identity. This includes National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security and Society in an Era of Change (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); and The Social Process of Globalization: Return Migration and Cultural Change in Kazakhstan (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Area(s) of Expertise:
Globalization and Identity, Central Asia, Russia, International Security
Selected Publications:
Blum, D. (2012) Cultural Globalization in the Post-Soviet 'South'. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.(20), 223-241.
Blum, D. (2008) Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security and Society in an Era of Change. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press & Woodrow Wilson International Center
Blum, D. (2007) National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Selected Presentations:
Blum, D. ESCAS Annual Conference. European Society for Central Asian Studies, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan - "Return Migration and Gender Equality in Kazakhstan" August, 2013
Blum, D. European Society for Central Asian Studies. , Astana, Kazakhstan - "Paper: Globalization and Society in Kazakhstan" August, 2013
Blum, D. Economics and Culture of Knowledge: Global Context and Kazakhstan Realities. , Almaty, Kazakhstan - "Paper: Cultural Globalization in the Post-Soviet South" May, 2012
Blum, D. Two Decades of Post-Soviet Independence: What Have We Learned?. Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University, Washington D.C. - "Cultural Globalization in the Post-Soviet South" December, 2011
