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 interactions in the anthropocene; as well ecofeminism and environmental sustainability.

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).

Presentation Video Link: Deconstructing the Universal Mind: Frameworks, Fragments, and Futures