Professor and department chair
Western Illinois University
Eric C. Sheffield is professor and department chair of educational studies at Western Illinois University in Macomb. He is also founding editor of the Academy for Educational Studies’ peer reviewed journal, Critical Questions in Education.
His recent scholarship has focused on community service learning, democratic education, and dystopian theoretical understandings of schools and other contemporary institutions. His forthcoming co-edited book (with Steven P. Jones) is titled Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on Difference and is due out spring of 2018 with Myers Education Press.
A former English teacher in Putnam County Florida, Sheffield received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Illinois College, and his master's and PhD from the University of Florida. Prior to coming to Western Illinois University, Sheffield was a professor in the reading, foundations and technology department at Missouri State University.