Christian Faltis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Teacher Education from Stanford University. At Ohio State, he is a member of the Language, Education, and Society area of study. Prior to being at Ohio State, Faltis was 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; he was also Professor of Bilingual Education at Arizona State University. Faltis is an AERA Fellow and an AERA Distinguished Scholar.

Faltis’ more than 100 publications have made important contributions to education, emphasizing ways to transform pedagogies used in teacher education for new and practicing teachers. His research ranges in topics ranging from understanding bilingualism and bilingual pedagogies, to working with language minoritized families, and using culturally responsive teaching practices. Among his major works are Preparing teachers to teach in and advocate for linguistically diverse classrooms: A vade mecum for teacher educators (2016); Teacher assessment and the assessment of students with special needs (2015); and Extraordinary pedagogies for working within school settings serving nondominant students (2013).  In 2018, he was the first non-minority scholar to be recognized for his Lifelong Achievement in Bilingual Teacher Education by the AERA Bilingual Research Special Interest Group in New York City.