Professor Sangeeta Kamat Elected as Vice President of Comparative and International Education Society

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International Education Professor Sangeeta Kamat was recently elected as the Vice President of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

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CIES is the largest and oldest in the world, and is comprised of thousands of researchers, analysts, practitioners, and students. Members examine the world’s educational issues, trends, and policies, with a goal of promoting teaching, research, and publication of comparative and international education.

Professor Kamat earned her Ph.D in Social and Comparative Analysis of Education from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a scholar of globalization and education reform, critical theory, gender analysis, and educational discourse. Her inspiration is “the extraordinary work of numerous community based organizations in India, and other parts of the Third World. Their tireless efforts to articulate an alternative discourse of development have informed my research questions and methods.” Her research has been featured in several books, including Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India and Education and Development in a Global Era: Strategies for ‘Successful Globalisation’. 

Kamat is also a Grace Lee Boggs Faculty Fellow at the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research and the International Education Program Coordinator.

For more information on Professor Kamat’s research, visit her website. For more information about the Comparative and International Education Society, visit the CIES website.