Erwin H. Epstein
Chair, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Loyola University of Chicago
1041 Ridge Road
Wilmette, IL 60091 USA
Phone: (847) 853-3302
Fax: (847) 853-3375
E-mail: eepstein@luc.edu
Erwin H. Epstein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies at Loyola University of Chicago. Prior to
his current position at Loyola, Epstein had been Professor of Educational
Policy and Leadership, and, for several years, Director of the
University Center for International Studies, at The Ohio State University.
He recently completed a 10-year term as Editor of the Comparative
Education Review, having issued more editions than any previous editor
in that journal's 42-year history. He has been the head of academic
units at four universities. He has had numerous visiting appointments,
including several at Latin American universities. He has worked
in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico as a Fulbright
Professor or Academic Specialist for the United States Information
Agency, and has been a consultant to, among other organizations,
the World Bank, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars,
the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Social Science
and Humanities Research Council of Canada, GRADE (Peru), the Center
of Education for Democracy in Nicaragua, and the Chilean Minister of
Education. Epstein has done research on China, Cuba, Mexico, Panama,
Peru, Puerto Rico, and St. Lucia. In 1985, he received the Lourdes Casal Award,
given to recognize the most outstanding work in the social sciences
on Cuba. He has addressed the Academy of Higher Education, a body of leading
university presidents, in Argentina, and, he was the first Joseph
Lauwerys Memorial Lecturer of the Comparative Education Society of Europe.
Epstein was President of the Comparative and International Education Society
in 1981-82 and of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies in
1980-82. Although primarily a Latin Americanist, his analyses of higher
education in mainland China and Taiwan, and a visiting appointment
at the University of the Western Cape, reflect his interests also in East Asia
and Africa. His forthcoming two-volume work, coedited with Noel McGinn
at Harvard University, and entitled Comparative Perspectives on the Role
of Education in Democratization, is scheduled to appear in 1999.
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