Center for Dewey Studies Avenue, MC:6822 Carbondale, Illinois Center for Dewey Studies The Center for John Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) was established as the central home for the works and study of philosopher/educator John Dewey. Led by Dr. Larry Hickman, "the Center for Dewey Studies is the home of ongoing publishing projects and research materials that focus on the life and work of the American philosopher and educator John Dewey." "By virtue of its publications and research, the Center has become the international focal point for research on Dewey's life and work." As the major Center for Dewey Studies in
Kant, Kyrgyzstan era, Kant and its surrounding area were home to a large number of ethnic Germans who had been forcibly relocated to Central Asia in 1941 from the Volga region when the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was abolished. Most left for Germany during the 1990s and after the demise of the Soviet Union when the factories where they had worked shut down. Several other nearby settlements, such as "Luxemburg" and Bergtal, still carry their German names, but retain only very small remnants of their Volga German and Russian Mennonite founders. The population of Kant, according to the Population and