Society of Philosophy and History of Education

2026 Annual Meeting Oct. 1-3

The Courtyard Marriott Hotel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

http://sopheconference.com/

2026 President, Frank Giuseffi, William Woods University

President Elect, Evans Akpo, Wayland Baptist University

Past President, Donna Sayman, Wichita State University

Editors, Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, jophe@wichita.edu

  Donna Sayman, Wichita State University

  Frank Giuseffi, William Woods University

Webmaster, Ralph Olliges, Webster University

Site Chair and Program Chair, David Snelgrove, Oklahoma State University

ISEB

2025 President, Yacine Kout, North Georgia University

President Elect, 

Past President, Sherry Mou, Depauw University

Secretary, Penny Craig, Ball State University

Treasurer, Prairie Parnell, Tarleton State University

Vitae Scholasticae Editor, Lucy Bailey, Oklahoma State University

SOPHE is an international conference that encourages and provides a forum for scholarship in the philosophical, historical, and social foundations of education, educational biography, pedagogical praxis, and the education-liberal arts nexus. For its scholarly presentations, SOPHE prefers argumentative, thesis-driven papers, clearly linked to larger philosophical, historical, and social issues concerning education (including higher education) as a social institution and the connections between education and the liberal arts including biography, history, literature, the sciences, and mathematics. Depending on focus of submissions, the program will have topical sessions that include philosophy of education, history of education, educational praxis, issues in education, and educational biography, among others. We invite proposals from scholars in colleges of education and arts and sciences, graduate students, and independent scholars.