Direction: In Education Policy
Position:Associate Professor
Keti Tsotniashvili is an associate professor of education policy at Ilia State University (since 2024). Her academic and scholarly interests lie in the transformations of education policy, institutes, and actors in the post-socialist space. The primary focus of her research is the transformation of academic identities, academic life, and the knowledge production space, in conjunction with historical and geopolitical changes.
Keti earned her PhD in Education Policy from Arizona State University in 2023. In 2024, she received the Best Dissertation Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Eurasia SIG. She is also the recipient of the Edmund Muskie Graduate Fellowship (2011-2013) and obtained her Masters’s Degree in Education from Vanderbilt University.
Keti has over 10 years of professional experience in higher education policy and system change, serving in various capacities such as head of the department, researcher, and expert/consultant at public and international organizations. She has collaborated with various foreign higher education accreditation agencies. Since 2018, she has served as the Higher Education Reform Expert at the Erasmus+ national office in Georgia.
Keti is a member of the Comparative and International Education Society and the American Education Research Association.
Scientific interests / research interests
- Transformations of Higher Education, University and Knowledge Production Spaces along with the historical and geopolitical changes
- Academic identities, academic profession
- Intersections of post-socialist transformation with the decolonial and post-colonial studies
- Collective memories, narratives and biographies
- Ethnographic and decolonial research
- The interconnectedness of education and sustainability
Publications
Jiang, J., Pretti, E., Tsotniashvili, K., Anayatova, D., Nielsen, A., & Silova, I. (forthcoming). Re-membering ceremonies: Childhood memories of our relationships with plants. In (An)Archive: Childhood, memory, and the cold war
Tsotniashvili, K. (2023) Transformation of academic identities in Georgia: Diffractive narratives in between defuturing and refuturing [Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University]
Hailu, M. F., Lee, E. E., Halkiyo, A., Tsotniashvili, K., & Tewari, N. R. (2023). Gender and higher education in African universities: A critical discourse analysis of key policy mandates in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31.
Anayatova, D., Chachkhiani, K., Hovsepian, S., Silova, I., & Tsotniashvili, K. (2023). Literacies of childhood and nation in the Anthropocene: Insights from (post)soviet early literacy textbooks. In D. Tröhler (Ed.), Education, curriculum and nation-building. Contributions of comparative education to the understanding of nations and nationalism. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education
Chachkhiani, K., Palandjian, G., Silova, I., & Tsotniashvili, K. (2023). Pedagogies of Time: “Editing” Textbooks, Timelines, and Childhood Memories. Journal of Childhood Studies, 48 (1), 111-125. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs202320568
Anayatova, D., Basu, M., Darira, S., Freiband, A., Glanz, D., Halkiyo, A., Hovsepian, S., Jenik, A., Jiang, J., Komatsu, H., Kwarase, P., Law, L., Nielsen, A., Oneill, J., Palandjian, G., Pretti, E., Rappleye, J., Sanchez, B., Silova, I., Tsotniashvili, K., & CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS (2022, May). Turn it around! An education guide to climate futures. Arizona State University and Artists’ Literacies Institute.
Tsotniashvili, K. (2022) Uncovering the state of play of faculty professional development in Georgian higher education institutions. PMC Research Center, Tbilisi
Koro, M., Carlson, D. L., Basu, M., & Tsotniashvili, K. (2022). Ontologies of Relation and Difference in ‘Research Designs’. In U. Flick (Ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (pp. 155-174)
Garcia, D., Laczko-Kerr, I., Bartlett, T., Clement, V., Jiang, J., Jin, J.I., Lujano Vilchis, I., & Tsotniashvili, K. (2021). Evaluation report of the Beat the Odds School Leadership Academy program. Center for the Future of Arizona.
Tsotniashvili, K. (2020). Ecosystem and Internalization of the Higher Education Quality Assurance System in Georgia. In 15 Years of Bologna Process in Georgia: Achievements, Challenges and Recommendations (pp. 71-86). Erasmus+ National Office Georgia, Tbilisi
Darchia, I., Grdzelidze, I., Glonti, L., Sanikidze, T. & Tsotniashvili, K. (2019). Analysis of Development and Implementation of the Authorization Mechanism for Higher Education Institutions. Erasmus+ National Office Georgia, Tbilisi
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