Supriya Baily, PhD

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Dr. Supriya Baily is Professor of Education at George Mason University.  She teaches courses in international and comparative education, gender and education, qualitative research methods and teacher education. She is also the Co-Director for the Center for International Education and currently serves as the President-elect for the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).  Her research interests focus on gender, education and empowerment, the role of teacher agency to support social justice issues, and theorizing qualitative research methods.  She has also spent over fifteen years working for peace and justice, as well as development organizations, both in the US and in India.

She is the co-editor of four books, including Experiments in Agency: A Global Partnership to Transform Teacher Research (2017), Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities (2015), and Internationalizing Teacher Education in the U.S. (2012). She has been a frequent guest lecturer around the world on gender and research methodology, including recently at Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, and Kyambogo University, in Kampala, Uganda and was named Visiting Faculty of Color at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 2017.

Dr. Baily previously served as the Treasurer of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and sat on the board of the Global Teacher Education, Inc.  She has been awarded multiple grants for research and teaching including by the U.S. State Department, the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (with former CIES Board member Dr. Halla Holmarsdottir), the International Research and Exchange Board, the Center for Consciousness and Transformation, and the Global Studies Office at George Mason University.