Valentina BALI

Valentina BALI serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University (MSU) in the United States (desk: 110) and is currently a Visiting Researcher at IREDU for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Her research program centers on education policy with specific emphases on civic education in schools, institutional missions, rural schooling challenges including "educational deserts," and determinants of students' university course selection. Methodological approaches and policy evaluation frameworks underpin her investigations into political processes within public education systems.

At IREDU, she actively collaborates with education policy specialists to advance research on rural educational access and school-level civic engagement initiatives.