Irving Epstein

Irving Epstein is Rhodes Professor of Peace and Social Justice Emeritus at Illinois Wesleyan University. In the 1970s and 80s, he taught in public schools in Perth, Australia, and Los Angeles, California and also worked in a Vietnamese refugee camp, teaching English while in Hong Kong. An active member of the Comparative and International Education Society for over forty years, he has also been heavily involved in the Scholars at Risk Network, an organization of over 600 universities dedicated to the protection of scholars in danger and the advocacy of academic freedom worldwide. He has written about issues involving education and juvenile delinquency in China, special education in Asia, children 's rights issues from a global perspective, the the nature of 21st century global youth protest, and application of social theory to comparative education questions. His latest work employs the use of affect theory to compare the fields of Film Studies and Comparative and International Education.