His mother, Charlotte Epstein (Kozin), was born in Bessarabia. Prior to his tenure at Lovola, he was Director of the University Center for International Studies and Professor of Humanistic Foundations of Education and of Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University. He has been the head ofacademic units at four universi- ties. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, the National Taiwan Pedagogical University, Universidad LaSalle (Mexico), State University of Novosibirsk (Russia), Humboldt University (Germany), and the University of Oxford (UK). 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, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada,the Woodrow WilsonInternational Center for Scholars, Academy for Educational Development, and the Chilean Minister of Education. He has served as an external evaluator for 23 universities and is a member of the Honorary Academic Council of the Graduate Program in Educational Policy and Administration at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina). Epstein was honored in 1985 as the recipient of t h e Lourdes Casal Award for the most out- standing work in the social sciences on Cuba.