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Payal P. Shah serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership, Learning Design, and Inquiry at the University of South Carolina's College of Education, specializing in international and comparative education, qualitative inquiry, and social foundations of education.
Her academic credentials include:
- Ph.D. in Education Policy Studies (Indiana University)
- MA in International and Comparative Education (Indiana University)
- MA in Sociology (Indiana University)
- BA in International Studies (Colby College)
Dr. Shah's research centers on girls’ education, international development policy, and qualitative methodologies with regional expertise in South Asia. Current projects explore gender, empowerment, and educational equity through rigorous fieldwork. She actively contributes to methodological discourse in education research while maintaining strong geographical focus on South Asian contexts.
Her scholarly work has secured competitive funding from the Fulbright Program and Spencer Foundation. Dr. Shah teaches core courses including EDFI 300: Schools in Communities, EDFI 730: Qualitative Epistemologies, Paradigms, and Theories, EDFI 731: Qualitative Research in Education, and EDFI 741: International and Comparative Education.
Professional engagement includes active membership in the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and The Association for Asian Studies (AAS), where she contributes to advancing global educational scholarship.
