Rachel Silver
Associate Professor of Education
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M.A. (Yale University) |
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Rachel Silver is an Associate Professor of Education and Faculty Affiliate with the Centre for Refugee Studies and Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Centre for International Programmes and Collaborations at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Silver’s research draws on and contributes to several fields: the anthropologies of education, gender, and policy; comparative and international education; critical development studies; and refugee and forced migration studies. At its core, her work explores two overlapping concerns: (1) how international development discourses, policies, and programs related to girls’ education intersect with broader political economic projects (e.g., colonialism, racial capitalism); and (2) negotiations around ownership and partnership in development/humanitarian aid structures and knowledge production practices. Silver has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals including Gender and Education, the Comparative Education Review, Compare, and Development and Change, and is currently the PI on a SSHRC-funded Insight Grant project entitled Refugee Education Governance and Alternative Futures in Kenya.