Christina Novakov-Ritchey earned her Ph.D at the University of California - Los Angeles and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. At UHCL, she teaches incarcerated undergraduate and master’s students in the Transforming Lives by Degrees Program. Her courses focus on colonialism, magic/healing, art history, historical materialism, and performance studies.
In addition to her research on postsocialism and traditional healing, other areas of research include peasant studies, self-taught art, racial capitalism in the Balkans, contemporary art, and anticolonial praxis.