Organization of Educational Historians Annual Meeting
October 1-2, 2021
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE and
ONLINE EXPERIENCE!
Conference Theme: From Disruption to Unity: Reflections on Transformational Progress in the History of Education
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Proposals due July 1, 2021!
Registration Instructions: Information to Come!
Keynote Speaker
Jon Hale, Ph.D.
Jon Hale, Ph.D.
Jon N. Hale, PhD is an Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (Columbia University Press, 2016). He is the co-editor of To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Freedom Schools (University Press of Mississippi, 2015) and has published articles in such venues as the American Educational History Journal, History of Educational Quarterly, the Journal of Social Studies Research, the Journal of Negro Education, the Journal of Southern History, and Labor History. Prior to his tenured appointment at the University of Illinois, Dr. Hale held academic positions at the College of Charleston as well as the University of South Carolina.
