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Academic Fellow Christian Faltis

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Christian Faltis
Professor and Chair, Ohio State University

Christian Faltis has been the Dolly and David Fiddyment Chair in Teacher Education, Director of Teacher Education, and Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of California, Davis (2008-2016) He is currently Chair and Professor of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. He is a leading scholar in bilingual teacher education.  His recent contributions focus on developing a Race Radical Vision for bilingualism and bilingual education and on understanding critical arts-based education. Chris was a Fulbright Scholar in Honduras.  In 2001, he was the recipient of an AERA Distinguished Scholar Award. He was named an AERA Fellow in 2016. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Teacher Education with an emphasis in Bilingual Cross-Cultural Education from Stanford University. Chris is an artist whose work on visceral realism in education has been featured in numerous scholarly works. He has published more than 100 pieces since the 1970s, including 22 books on language education, mostly addressing the needs of Latinx students and teachers.