I am an educational anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar in sociocultural foundations. My research focuses on the social contexts of education, diverse learners in the Southwestern region of the U.S., and educational policy and equity.

• Provost Faculty Fellow - UTEP Provost Office (09/01/2023-09/30/2023)
• Dodson Research Grant (12/23/2021)
• UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects New Grant Award Recognition - UTEP Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (09/01/2016-09/30/2016)

• Ph D in Educational Anthropology, University of Arizona (2011)
• Secondary Education , University of Arizona (1994)
• MA in Francophone Studies, University of Arizona (1993)
• BA in French, University of Vermont (1986)

• Place-Based Servingness at a Fronterizx Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Call for Borderland Servingness AERA Annual Meeting (in press), Christina Convertino, Isaac Frausto, Lucia Dura.
• The uses of engineering notebooks among pre-engineering students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 66 2 (2022), Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino.
• Continuous Improvement for Equity in Engineering: Addressing Departmental Change with Theory-Informed Case Study Research (EBR). Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference. (2021), Christina Convertino.
• Storylines in Figured Worlds: Understanding Diverse College Students' Decision to Major in Computer Science Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (2021), Christina Convertino, Angelica Monarrez.
• Nuancing the Discourse of Underrepresentation: A Feminist Poststructural Analysis of Gender Inequality in Computer Science Education Gender and Education (2020), Christina Convertino.
• A National INCLUDES Effort to Integrate Problem-Solving Skills into Computer Science Curriculum Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (2019), Ann C. Gates, Elsa Y. Villa, Sarah Hugs, Christina Convertino, Johannes Strobel.
• Culture, Teaching, and Learning Wiley 10th edition (2019), Christina Convertino, Bradley Levinson, Norma Gonzaléz.

• Echémonos flores: A mentoring model for Latina bilingual doctoral students (2023), Volume Las Vegas, Cynthia C. Teran Lopez, Christina Convertino.
• Using pláticas to navigate policies that violate the privacy of survivors of sexual abuse in the context of doing educational research (2023), Volume Chicago, Cynthia C. Teran Lopez, Christina Convertino.
• Continuous Improvement for Equity in Engineering Education: Addressing Departmental Change with Theory-Based Case Study Research (EBR). (2022), Christina Convertino, Sarah Hug, Heather Thiry.
• Re(producing) Gender Difference: A Cultural Accounting of Professional Skills Amongst Latinx Computer Science Majors. (2022), Christina Convertino, Josey Pickett, Viridiana Vidana, Mariana Alvidrez.
• Conflict between Racially Dominated Groups, White Priviledge, and CRT (2022), Volume Virtual, Char Ullman, Christina , .
• Platicando con Confianza y Respeto: Disrupting Traditional Mentorship by Building Reciprocal Relationships Through Pláticas (2021), Volume Virtual , Christina Convertino, Helena Mucino Guerra.
• The Work of the Hispanic Servingness Research Council at UTEP (2021), Volume UTEP, Convertino Christina, Dura.
• Launching UTEP's Hispanic Servingness Research Council (2021), Volume UTEP, Christina Convertino, Jesus Cisneros, Lucia Dura, Danielle Morales, Azuri Gonzalez , Cole Joslyn, Edna Martinez, Jeffrey Olimpo.
• The Hispanic Servingness Research Council (2021), Volume UTEP, Christina Convertino.
• Findings from a Pre-Calculus Intervention to Shift Pre-Calculus to a Gateway Course (2020), Elsa Y. Villa, Maria C. Mariani, Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Nada F. Al-Hanna.
• "I Talk Math" : Examining Different Types of Talk in PreCalculus Workshops at a Hispanic-serving Institution (2020), Christina Convertino, Mariana Alvidrez, Diana M. Camberos.
• Storylines in Figured Worlds: Understanding Diverse College Students' Decision to Major in Computer Science (2020), Christina Convertino, Angelica Monarrez.
• "You Better Be Careful": Transfronterizx Students College Identities and Borderwork in the Classroom (2020), Christina Convertino.
• Transcultural Production of Schooling among Transfronterizx Students (2019), Volume Boston, MA, Maria T. De La Piedra, Christina Convertino.
• Examining the Integration of Cooperative Learning into a College-Level Pre-Calculus Workshop on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2019), Volume Toronto, CA, Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Elsa Y. Villa, Sarah Hugs, McKay Mike.

• A Knowledge-Based Framework for Creating and Sustaining Transformation Change for Latinx Student Success in STEM"
• "COVID FUNDS/Supplement: RAPID: Building Research Capabilities of Academically Talented Undergraduate Students from Hispanic-Serving Institutions through Virtual Research Experiences"
• Developing Software Engineers of Tomorrow