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Noah W. Sobe
Assistant Professor, Cultural and Educational Policy Studies

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Biography

Professor Sobe is a historian of education also active in the field of comparative and international education.  His primary teaching is in the Cultural and Educational Policy Studies program.  He also teaches in the School of Education's Research Methods program.

Education
2005 Ph.D. Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.
Minor in Educational Policy Studies
2000 M.A. International & Transcultural Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY, U.S.A.
1993 B.A. History & International Relations, Tufts University, Medford, MA U.S.A.

Professor Sobe has worked as a teacher at the middle school level, teaching in Poland 1994-1995 and in New York City 1996-1999.  An interest in East/Central and Southeastern Europe has led to his involvement in educational development projects in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Serbia/Montenegro.  This has also led in many ways to an interest in the international circulation of pedagogies and curricula. Professor Sobe's dissertation research examined Yugoslav student and teacher travel in the 1920s and 1930s based on archival research conducted in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro.

On the faculty at Loyola University Chicago since Fall 2004, Professor Sobe also serves as Associate Director of the School of Education's Center for Comparative Education.  He serves on the School of Education's Curriculum Committee, the University's Faculty Council, and the Faculty Oversight Committee of The Beijing Center, and has taught in the School of Education's Rome summer program.  His community service activities include serving on the board of directors of the Bosnian Hercegovinian American Community Center (BHACC) and The Village Project Inc.

Professor Sobe's professional association memberships include the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and the History of Education Society (HES).  He has served as a reviewer for AERA's Foucault and Education SIG; Post-Colonial Studies SIG; Division F and Division B, Section 4 and is the Chair of the CIES Globalization and Education Special Interest Group (SIG). In 2008/2009 he chaired the CIES Nominations Committee and served on the George Bereday Award Committee. He has served on the editorial boards of Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), and European Education. At present Professor Sobe is serving as European Education's Book Review Editor.

Awards
2009 Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Human Rights of the Child, Loyola University Chicago
2008 Summer Research Stipend, Loyola University Chicago
2008 Spring Semester Research Sabbatical, Loyola University Chicago
2007 Canadian Studies Faculty Enrichment Award, Foreign Affairs Canada
2006 Junior Scholars Training Seminar (East European Studies), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2006 Summer Research Stipend, Loyola University Chicago
2004 University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Travel Grant
2003 Comparative and International Education Society Travel Grant
2000-2002 Spencer Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship

[Downloadable PDF of complete Curriculum Vitae].


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