Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Faculty

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Christina Marin

Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre

Christina Marin

Phone: (212)998-5196
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Awards

  • 2009 : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Faculty Award
  • 2008 : Steinhardt GSO Faculty Star Teaching Award
  • 2006 : Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Arts-based Educational Research SIG of AERA
  • 2004 : American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2003 : Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Practicum Grant
  • 2002 : American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) Winifred Ward Scholarship
  • 2002 : Hispanic Scholarship Fund/Lilly Endowment, Inc./Tucson Golf Classic Scholar
  • 2005 : Arizona State University Chicano Faculty & Staff Association Robert L. Pastor Award
  • 2001 : Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Quechua
  • Arizona State University Theatre and Performance of the Americas Travel Grant
  • Arizona State University, Office of Community Programs Collegiate Fellowship Award
  • Arizona State University Graduate College Travel Grant
  • Arizona State University ArtsBridge Scholarship

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. Arizona State University
    Theatre
  • B.S. Northwestern University
    Theatre

Publications

  • Gender Forum: Working Out Gender 17 (2007) - Staging Femicide/Confronting Reality: Negotiating Gender and Representation in "Las Mujeres de Juarez" (link)
  • Youth Theatre Journal - A Methodology Rooted in Praxis: Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) Techniques Employed as Arts-Based Educational Research Methods
  • "The Pink Elephant is Going to Ruin My Sofa: Theatre as Pedagogy Addressing Racism and Social Change" in the edited volume: Teaching Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: Perspectives from North America (With Dr. Jodi VanDerHorn-Gibson)
  • STAGE of the Art - "For Latinas Who Have Considered Dropping Out/When Chekhov is Not Enuf" (with Grisel Grullon)
  • STAGE of the Art - "Toward a Collaborative Praxis: Our ArtsBridge Experience" (with Dr. Jodi VanDerHorn-Gibson)
  • Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture in the United States
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 305: Latin American Dramatists, First Series

Editorial Boards

  • 2006: ArtsPraxis, Guest Editor

Courses

  • World Drama
  • Introduction to Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed
  • Advanced Techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed
  • Applied Theatre
  • Seminar in Applied Theatre Research
  • Methods and Materials of Research in Educational Theatre
  • Understanding Diversity/Teaching Pluralism through Drama
  • Exploring Social Issues through Drama
  • Coping with Conflict: Drama as a Catalyst for Social Awareness
  • Drama in Education 
  • New Student Seminar

Presentations

  • Theatre Behind Bars: Applied Theatre Praxis and Arts-based Educational Research in Correctional Facilities
    American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: The World of Educational Quality, San Diego, CA April 2009
  • Staging Femicide: Women Swallowed by the US-Mexico Border
    American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA April 2008
  • Education for a Change: Socially Engaged Arts Education.
    WNET/WLIW Celebration of Teaching and Learning, New York, NY March 2008
  • La Llorona Still Weeps in the Desert: The Allegorical Representation of the Weeping Woman in "Braided Sorrow"
    American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR), Phoenix, AZ November 2007
  • Braided Sorrow: A Staged Reading
    National Sexual Assault Conference: A National Conference on Sexual Violence Prevention and Intervention, Baltimore, MD September 2007
  • Pushing Beyond the Boundaries that Separate Us
    American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) National Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia (with Tallerie McRae and Abigail Russell) August 2007
  • IRB Clearance: Why You Need It and How To Get It
    American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) National Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia (Panel Moderator: Oona Kersey) August 2007
  • You Want Diversity? What About the GRE?
    American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: The World of Educational Quality, Chicago, IL April 2007
  • Lateen@: Una Palabra Nuestra
    International Drama in Education Research Institute 5 (IDIERI): Returning the Gaze, Reclaiming the Voice, Kingston, Jamaica July 2006
  • Will the Real Latinas Please Stand Up? Using Theatre for Social Change to Interrogate Forms of Social Oppression Experienced by Latinas
    Arte Sana National Training Institute, Austin, TX November 2005
  • Jokering Research: Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques as Arts-Based Methodology
    3rd Winter Conference on arts Education, Tucson, AZ February 2005
  • Here's to Your Health: Using Image Theatre to Address Health Issues affecting Latino Youth
    Latin American Youth Center, Washington, DC April 2004
  • Lateen@: Una Palabra Nuestra (Lateen@: A Word of Our Own)
    18th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies, Athens, GA January 2005
  • Performing Identity: Using Image Theatre Living Newspaper Theatre to Interrogate Identity
    Entertainment-Education for Social Change International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa October 2004
  • Making Choices: Using Image Theatre to Explore the Complex Choices We Face as Latinos
    National Council of La Raza, Lideres Youth Leadership Summit, Phoenix, AZ June 2004
  • Children in Restraints
    Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed National Conference, Omaha, NE April 2004
  • MaƱana es Hoy! Empowering Latino Youth through Theatre and Performance
    American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) National Conference, New York, NY August 2003

Research Interests

  • Human Rights Education
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • Applied Theatre
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Latina Adolescent Identity
  • Arts-Based Research Methods
  • Third World Feminism in the First World
  • Border Theory

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