Lawrence Blum

Lawrence Blum is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education and Professor of Philosophy. His scholarly interests are in race theory, moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral education, multiculturalism, social and political philosophy, philosophy of education, the philosophy of Simone Weil, and, more recently, philosophy and the Holocaust, and ethics and race in film. He has taught at UMass-Boston since 1973, and has been a visiting professor at UCLA (in Philosophy), Stanford (in Education), and Teachers College, Columbia (in Education). Blum is married to the historian and film scholar, Judy Smith, who is the Director of the Masters Program in American Studies at UMass-Boston. Harvard University, PhD in Philosophy, 1974 Linacre College, Oxford University, 1968-1969, as Knox Fellow Princeton University, B.A. in Philosophy, 1964