Areas of Expertise
Women's History
African American History
Environmental History
Post World War
American History

Contact Information
sblum@troy.edu
Office: (334) 670-5663

Dr. Elizabeth D. (Scout) Blum
Associate Professor of History

Dr. Elizabeth D. Blum is an assistant professor of history. She joined the University in 2000 from Galveston ( Texas) College, where she served as a reserve instructor.

Blum earned both her doctorate and master’s degrees from the University of Houston, while receiving her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas. Her academic concentrations are in U.S. History, American women’s history, African-American history, contemporary America and environmental history.

Since 2001, Blum has served as co-archivist for Troy University. She served as a researcher for the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project in 2000, a historian for the Texas Slavery Project from 1999-2000 and project coordinator and consultant for the Oral History Project of the University of Houston’s Women’s Studies Department from 1998-2000.

She is a member of the American Historical Association, the American Society of Environmental Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Texas Oral History Association and the Higher Education Partnership of Alabama.