Blaze graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2015 with a B.A. in History and Anthropology. He studied abroad for anthropology in Auckland, New Zealand, in the winter of 2013, focusing on the relationship between the Maori and the government in modern New Zealand and its historical background, and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the summer of 2014, where he studied a variety of subjects including Balkan security, history, and international justice. His undergraduate thesis dealt with issues of nationalism and memory in Croatia surrounding the breakup of Yugoslavia. His dissertation in the CU/LSE program looked at how the international “spotlight effect” has impacted the stark contrast in how the War in Bosnia is commemorated in Prijedor and Srebrenica, two communities in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS). He is now a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley.
