Ebed Sulbaran, is the Associate Director for the Office of Global Engagement at The College of Wooster. He held the positions of Project Director, ESL/EFL instructor, and advisor to scholars participating in international programs. Con Experiencia educativa en Venezuela, donde enseñó ingles como segunda lengua por mas de 10 años en los distintos niveles del sistema educativo bolivariano. If you are interested in being part of LASIG, please email him: [email protected] or call his office number 330-263-2227.
Laura Edwards (Ph.D., Michigan State University) es profesora asistente de currículo e instrucción en la Universidad de Northern Iowa. Su camino a la academia comenzó de maestra de primaria y ahora comparte cursos de pregrado y posgrado en la universidad enseñando los temas de diversidad y de justicia social. La base de sus investigaciones abordan temas de género, sociales críticos y educativos en Tanzania, centro urbano de Phoenix, comunidades en México y ahora en Colombia.
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Maria Teresa Tatto is an associate professor of teacher education at Michigan State University. Her research is characterized by the use of an international-comparative framework to study educational reform and educational policy and their impact on schooling, particularly the role of teachers, teaching, and learning – within varied organizational, economic, political, and social contexts. She is currently the director for the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M) and the principal investigator for the First Five Years of Mathematics Teaching (FIRSTMATH) study. She is also frequent speaker in scholarly and policy forums. She is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), and received her master’s and doctorate from Harvard University.
Erwin H. Epstein is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. He is a past president of the Comparative and International Education Society and of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, and is currently the Historian of CIES. He served two 5-year terms as Editor of the Comparative Education Review. He has had visiting professorships in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Spain as well as having been an advisor in Chile and Nicaragua. He has also conducted field research in Panama, Puerto Rico and St. Lucia. His main research interests are on Comparative Education theory and the relationship between education and national identity in socioculturally marginal communities.