Faculty Associate
Director of the Center for Comparative Education
| Erwin H. Epstein | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title: | Director of CCE; Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies |  |
| Office #: | Lewis Towers 10th Floor | |
| Phone: | (312) 915-6273 | |
| E-mail: | eepstei@luc.edu | |
Erwin H. Epstein is Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Center for Comparative Education. He has been a Fulbright Professor in Mexico and has also lectured on Comparative Education at universities in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and Taiwan.
His research focuses on sense of nationality among schoolchildren in socioeconomically marginalized communities, school choice, education and democratization, and comparative theory. He is a former president both of the Comparative and International Education Society and of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, and for 10 years was Editor of the Comparative Education Review.