Christian J FaltisChristian J. Faltis is currently Professor of Bilingual Education and Chair of the Education Department in the College of Education at Texas A&M International University. Prior to his appointment at TAMIU, Professor Faltis was Chair f the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. He is Professor Emeritus of UC Davis, where he served as the Dolly and David Fiddyment Chair in Teacher Education and Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture in the School of Education. He also taught at Arizona State University for 18 years. His research interests include bilingual teacher education for emergent bilingual users, critical bilingual education, and critical arts-based learning. Professor Faltis served as a Fulbright Scholar at the National Autonomous University of Honduras. He received the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Distinguished Scholar Award in 2001. He was inducted as an AERA Fellow in 2016. He received the Bilingual Research SIG Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA in 2018. He has been editor of four journals. He holds an MA degree in Mexican American Graduate Studies from San José State University, and an MA in Second Language Education and PhD in Curriculum & Teacher Education with an emphasis in Bilingual Cross-Cultural Education from Stanford University. Read More Read Less