Christina Marín (Assistant Professor) B.S. 1992, Northwestern University; Ph.D. 2005, Arizona State University; is an educator/performer/director whose work has been conducted on an international level in countries including Colombia, Ecuador, México, Ireland, South Africa, and Singapore. She is the recipient of a 2009 NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award and the 2008 Steinhardt Graduate Student Organization's Outstanding Faculty Star Award. She is the recipient of an American Dissertation Fellowship, sponsored by the American Association of University Women. Her dissertation, Breaking Down Barriers, Building Dreams: Using Theatre for Social Change to Explore the Concept of Identity with Latina Adolescents, documents a case study in which she worked with youth in Phoenix, Arizona employing Theatre of the Oppressed techniques as arts based qualitative research methodology. Her research has been funded by the American Association of University Women, the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and Eileen Fisher™ Inc.

Dr. Marín is serving as the Co-Chair of the 2009 Risking Innovation Conference in New York City, sponsored by the American Alliance for Theatre & Education and the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. She is published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 305: Latin American Dramatists, First Series; the Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States; Youth Theatre Journal; STAGE of the Art; and several anthologies and volumes on theatre and education. Her research interests focus on the implications of incorporating theatre and performance into both traditional and non-traditional sites for critical pedagogy, such as conventional classrooms, community development programs, and health service agencies. She also examines the use of theatre as a pedagogical tool in Human Rights Education.