EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, NY, Ph.D. with distinction 2002, Comparative Education and History/Political Science

Columbia University, New York, NY, M.Phil. 2000, International and Comparative Education

Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY,  M.Ed. 1997

Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY,  M.A. 1996
Education Administration and Leadership

University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, B.A. 1994 Linguistics

Columbia University, The Harriman Institute, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY, Certificate 1999-2002

RESEARCH
Dr. Silova’s research focuses on the study of globalization, democratization, and policy ‘borrowing’ in education. Her research and publications cover a range of issues critical to understanding post-socialist education transformation processes, including gender equity trends in Eastern/Central Europe and Central Asia, minority/multicultural education policies in the former Soviet Union, as well as the scope, nature, and implications of private tutoring in a cross-national perspective.

Her most recent research documents the influence of international NGOs on education policy-making in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia. She is the author of From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia (Information Age Publishing, 2006), which won the best book award from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) for an outstanding English-language scholarly book in Baltic Studies (humanities and social sciences) published in 2006 or 2007. Her last two edited volumes include How NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia (Kumarian Press, 2008; with Gita Steiner-Khamsi) and Education in a Hidden Marketplace: Monitoring of Private Tutoring (Open Society Institute, 2006; with Mark Bray and Virginija Budiene). Since 2008, Dr. Silova is the co-editor (with Alex Wiseman) of European Education: Issues and Studies (a quarterly peer-reviewed journal published by M.E. Sharpe).

COURSES
Educ 471          Diversity and Multicultural Perspectives
EdL   450          Curriculum Design in a Global Society
CIE   402           Development and Evaluation of International Educational                          Projects

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