In Memoriam: An ICHER founding board member, Christian W. Beck was a professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, where he taught courses in educational research. He was a leading scholar in the sociology of education with a particular emphasis on European home education, its purpose and significance. For 20 years he conducted research on home education in Norway, estimating the population and surveying representative samples, and authored and edited numerous publications on home education. His presence will be missed, but his work will continue to benefit our understanding of the field.

Christine Brabant is a professor at Université de Montréal in Canada, where she teaches courses in educational administration. In association with the Belgian Catholic University of Leuven's Centre for Philosophy of Law, she is exploring the possibility of reflexive governance education and, in particular, the potential for collective participation among homeschoolers and educational authorities.  She has published preliminary findings on this research, and both her master and doctoral theses studied home education as well.
  

Cheryl Fields is a professor at the University of Georgia, where she teaches courses in elementary education. Her 2004 dissertation focused on family engagement of 22 Black parents in five elementary school settings, during which she was also introduced to a Black homeschooling family.  Intrigued, Dr. Fields conducted a two-year Spencer Foundation study of Black home education among 46 families, and continues this line of research today.
  

Milton Gaither is the author of   Homeschool: An American History, the first book-length treatment of its theme, and he has continued this line of research in several subsequent articles.  He has been blogging about homeschooling research since 2008 and serves as ICHER’s co-Director of Research.
  

Robert Kunzman is a professor at Indiana University, where he teaches courses in curriculum, pedagogy, and philosophy of education.  His research explores the intersection of citizenship, religion, and education, with a particular focus on homeschooling.  He serves as the Managing Director of ICHER, and is the author most recently of Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (2009).
  

Thomas Spiegler is a professor at Friedensau Adv. University, where he teaches courses in sociology and research methods.  An expert in theology and sociology, he has conducted extensive empirical research on home education in the German context, including the first study exploring the development of German homeschooling, parental motives, educational approaches, and legal issues.