Christian Faltis is currently Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M International University.  He 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 (2008-2016) and Chair and Professor of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University from 2016-2020.  He also taught at in College of Education at Arizona State University for 18 years. 

Early in his academic career, Christian was a year-long Fulbright Scholar at the Autonomous National University of Honduras, living in Tegucigalpa.  He also taught a year at the University of Guadalajara in 2014-15. In 2001, he was the recipient of an AERA Distinguished Scholar Award. He was named an AERA Fellow in 2016. In 2018, he was given the Bilingual Education Research SIG Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been Editor of TESOL Journal and Teacher Education Quarterly, and he currently serves as Editor of the Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe. Christian holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Curriculum & Teacher Education with an emphasis in Bilingual Cross-Cultural Education from Stanford University. He also earned a M.A. in Mexican American Studies.

Over the past 40 years, Christian has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, and he has more than 25 books on language diversity and bilingual education. Christian studied art in Mexico.  As an artist, Christian has created the book cover artwork for more than 12 published books.