Iveta Silova is Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She teaches graduate courses in comparative and international education, education policy and evaluation, research design, and post/decolonial approaches to education research. She supervises PhD students undertaking research in the areas of globalization and education borrowing; post-socialist transformations; post-colonialism, decolonial studies, and border-thinking; artificial intelligence and education; nature-culture interactins in the anthropocene; as well ecofeminism and environmental sustainability.

Bridging different cultures and disciplinary boundaries, and working in several languages, Professor Silova's research has evolved in the following directions (see more under 'research' section):

• Globalization, knowledge transfer, and education policy borrowing

• Post-socialist transformations and education alternatives beyond the Western horizon

• Memories of childhood and schooling during socialism and the Cold War

• Scientific and philosophical study of humannature interactions and relations

• Education, ecofeminism and environmental sustainability

Professor Silova has extensive experience in the area of international aid and development, haivng experienced different sides of the development industry's operations - both as a recepient of international aid working in the post-socialist contexts, a program officer overseeing the implementation of international development projects globally, and as a researcher engaged in studying the politics and policies of international development dynamics. She was born, raised, and education in (Soviet Latvia) and spent seven years living and working in various countries of the former Soviet Union, including Central Asia (Kazakhstan), the Caucasus (Azerbaijan), and Belarus. Prior to her academic career in the U.S., she worked as an education researcher and adviser with various international organizations, including UNICEF, UNESCO, USAID, and the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations. Her long-term goal is to continue to bridge the traditional theory/practice dichotomy by engaging in meaningful and ethical collaborations between academics, policymakers, and education practitioners in various cultural contexts.

Professor Silova is a recipient of multiple awards, including ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Award for Excellence in Research for Global Impact (2020), UN Best Practices Award (2013) for inspiring students to act on the issues of global concern. She received the George Bereday Award for the article published in Comparative Education Review (2013), co-authored with Stephen Carney and Jeremy Rappleye, Between Faith and Science: World Culture Theory and Comparative Education and best book award for From sites of occupation to symbols of multiculturalism (2008) from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS).