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About

Professor Sobe is a historian of education and comparative education researcher.  He is Professor of Modern European History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. He works on the history of education and the futures of education and approaches stories about the past and stories about the future as two halves of the same whole—that whole being the accumulating possibilities that we as interdependent human beings in a more-than-human world can imagine and perhaps even recuperate, avoid, or create.

Research Interests

  • Globalization and Education
  • Transnational Circulations of Educational Policies and Practices
  • Accountability in Education
  • Attention and Boredom
  • Education in the Slavic World, Socialism & Post-Socialism
  • History of the Field of Comparative Education
  • Emotions in the History of Education
  • World's Fairs and International Expositions
  • Education and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • Cosmopolitanism and Education
  • Global Higher Education

Disciplines

  • Education
  • Educational Methods