Gallery
2007 Midwest CIES Regional Conference at Loyola University Chicago:

Victor Kobayashi (University of Hawaii), Robert Lawson (Ohio State University), and M. Mobin Shorish(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Ohio State University participants: Benjamin A. Johnson and Peilun Lee, and keynote speaker Robert Lawson
Center for Comparative Education Graduate Students Gain Degrees:
Left to Right: Bruce Collet (Ph.D), Hee Kyoung Hong (Ph.D), Mojgan Majdzadeh (Ph.D),
Tim Martin (Ph.D), Katherine Carroll (Ph.D), and Professor Erwin H. Epstein.

Dr. Epstein and 2006 Ph.D. graduate, Mojgan Majdzadeh.
Research and Presentations:
2007 Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Panel entitled, "How International fits into the Comparative and International Education Society." Left to Right: Kendra Preston, Maria Trakas, Dr. Vandra Maseman (OISE, University of Toronto), Dr. Epstein, CIES Historian Dr. Elizabeth Sherman Swing, Louis Rizzo, Carrie Rackers, and Dr. Kim Sebaly (Kent State University).
Left to Right: Erwin Epstein, CIES Historian Elizabeth Sherman Swing, Vandra Masemann (OISE, University of Toronto), and Kim Sebaly (Kent State University) after a presentation at the 2007 Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Left to Right: Maria Trakas, Carrie Rackers, Kendra Preston, and Lou Rizzo doing research in the CIES Archives at Kent State University (04/07/06).

Kendra Preston searching CIES Presidential files.

Left to Right: Carrie Rackers, Kendra Preston, Maria
Trakas, and Lou Rizzo.

Dr. Epstein Speaking at U. of San Pedro (Peru).
Center for Comparative Education (CCE) Receptions:
Center for Comparative Education (CCE) annual reception held at the Comparative and International Education Society 2007 Annual Conference. Left to Right: Mousumi Mukherjee, Dr. Epstein, and Dr. Irving Epstein (Illinois Wesleyan University).

Associate Director Noah W. Sobe, and Director Erwin H. Epstein at the inaugural reception of the Center for Comparative Education (05/11/05).

Left to right: Julie Jung-Kim, Magda Banda, Katrin Raie, and Hee Kyuong Hong.

Left to right: Maria Trakas, Kendra Preston, and Dr. Sobe.
Comparative and International Education Graduate Student Association (CIEGSA) Gatherings:

Left to Right: Josefina DiGiovanna, Veronica Zapata, Jen Schmuhl, Lou Rizzo, Maria Trakas, and Julie Jung-Kim (2/19/06).

Cal Tamanji details his experience at the Midwest CIES Conference held at Michigan State University (10/16/05).

Left to Right: Shelley Terzian, Mariko Kawakami, and Dr. Epstein (10/16/05).

Dr. Epstein and the Comparative and International Education Graduate Student Association (CIEGSA) meet at the University of Chicago Press.
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Meetings:

Center for Comparative Education Associates at CIES 2008 at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Left to right: Vilma Seeberg, Professor in Cultural Foundations (KSU), Don Bubenzer, Dean of Education, Health and Human Service (KSU), Linda Robertson, Director of the Center for International Intercultural Studies (KSU), Dr. Epstein, and David Post, editor Comparative Education Review and Professor at Penn State University at the Gerald Read Center, Kent State University reception at CIES 2008.
Dr. Epstein and Center for Comparative Education Associates at CIES 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Comparative and International Education Graduate Student Association (CIEGSA) annual dinner at CIES 2007.

Dr. Epstein and the Loyola "crew" at CIES 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Left to Right: WCCES President Mark Bray (UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning), Ruth Hayhoe (OISE, University of Toronto), Vandra Masemann (OISE, University of Toronto), CIES Historian Elizabeth Sherman Swing, and Dr. Epstein.

Left to Right: Dr. Gustavo Fischman (Arizona State University), Dr. Noah Sobe, Dr. Val Rust (UCLA), Cal Tamanji, Dr. Erwin Epstein, and Dr. David Phillips (University of Oxford) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Dr. Epstein speaking at the CIES National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Loyola Comparativists at the CIES National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Left to right: Dr. Epstein, CIEGSA President Jose Cossa, and CIES President Donald Holsinger.
Center for Comparative Education Associates: International Experiences

Dr. Epstein at the entrance to St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, England
Dr. Epstein, Dr. David Phillips, and Dr. Phillips' class at the University of Oxford, England
Outreach:

Dr. Epstein and the Emmet Elementary Scholarship committee bring college students back to receive book awards (02/07/2007).

