affiliations and awards

Professor Alan Blum is Senior Professor in Sociology, Social and Political Thought, and Communication and Culture at York University, Toronto. Blum was born in Rockford Illinois, raised in Chicago and lived for significant periods in Boston, London, and Amsterdam, settling in New York for many years. Blum received his Phd from the University of Chicago, and was US National Institutes of Mental Health Fellow in the department of Psychiatry at Harvard University, and a Visiting Fellow at King's College of Cambridge University, England before becoming Professor of Sociology first at Columbia University and then New York University. Blum has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the US and the UK including the University of Wales, The Institute of Social Change of the University of California at Berkeley, Virginia Commonwealth University, the New College of the University of South Florida, and has been recipient of research fellowships from foundations such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the MacArthur Foundation, the Leverhulme Foundation, and of funding from Health and Welfare Canada, the Attorney General of Canada, The Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research among others.