Isa Blumi is Professor of World History and Middle Eastern Studies at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies from New York University (NYU-2005) and a Master of  Political Science and Historical Studies (1995) from The New School for Social Research, New York.

Isa Blumi joined Stockholm University in late 2015 after spending the previous 12 years teaching and researching at universities located in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, the USA, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and Albania/Kosovo. Over these years, Dr. Blumi has mentored students and directed MA and PhD projects. Several of these former students who finished their PhDs currently teach at Spelman College, CUNY, NUS, UC-Davis, Princeton, Georgia State, Ghent, Eastern Michigan, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, and Yeshiva Universities. Since joining Stockholm University, Professsor Blumi has mentored PhD students who have successfully defended their PhDs at the Universities of Geneva, UCLA, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Leuven, Leiden, American University of Beirut, Koc, and Antwerp. Currently, Professor Blumi is supervising the PhD projects of students working on Modern Middle Eastern history, along with MA students at Stockholm University's Middle Eastern Studies program. Former students of Middle Eastern Studies under Isa Blumi's supervision have since moved into PhD programs in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Islamic Studies at Lund University, Cultural History at La Sapienza in Rome, and Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

Professor Blumi is a regular contributor to news programs as an invited guest to comment on current events in the Balkans, Africa, and Middle East.