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Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, Ph.D., Texas Tech University
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Contact No.: 0364 2308000
Dr. Christine Farias is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in the Economics and Public Policy area at Indian Institute of Management Shillong. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Texas Tech University and is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), City University of New York (CUNY) in New York, USA. Dr. Farias co-directs a multi-year National Endowment for the Humanities grant funded project that aims to bring poverty focused humanities texts into her college’s classrooms across the curriculum. As the Faculty Advisor to the Economics Equality and Environment Student Academic Club, she advises an interdisciplinary and diverse group of student officers to be potential future leaders by creating awareness of local and global issues focusing on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As a Faculty Mentor she guides student researchers at her institution in the competitive City University of New York Research Scholar Program on topics of mutual interest. Dr. Farias’ main teaching and research interests are ecological economics, poverty, inequality, climate change, deforestation and land use, sustainability and action learning pedagogy. She teaches courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics and Labor Economics using a human values lens. Her research focuses on the tensions arising out of sustainability and traditional economic perspectives. She has publications in several peer-reviewed journals and has presented her research at various domestic and international conferences. She has also published on pedagogical issues based on her teaching innovations and experiences in the classroom. As a recipient of several Faculty Development Seminar Awards she has travelled to Senegal in 2019, to Palestine in 2022, and to Mongolia in 2024. As a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Development Seminar Awardee she has travelled to Taiwan in 2023 and in 2024. Her travels have expanded and enriched her global perspective and enabled international collaborations.