Christina Costa

Christina Costa

Assistant Professor

c.costa@wayne.edu

7304, Maccabees Building

Department

Psychology

Christina Costa

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

Positive psychology, resilience, well-being, teaching methods in psychology

Education

  • Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Michigan
  • M.S. in Psychology, University of Michigan
  • B.A. in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience, University of Michigan

Awards and grants

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Incredible Educator Award (2021)

  • Barbara Oleshansky Memorial Award (2020)

  • Honored Instructor Award (2019)

  • The Gates Foundation Teaching Grant (2017)

News mentions

Selected publications

  • Costa, C.N., (2022) Spoken Resilience: Documenting Lived Experience of Neurodiversity and Thriving Despite Disease. Methodological Innovations, 15(3), 303-307
  • Costa, C.N. (2022). Neuro Narratives: An Autoethnographic Account of Experiencing Resilience with a Brain Tumor. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 11, 32-53
  • Costa, C.N. & Bedir, N. (2022). Anti-Racist Foundation of Teaching: Ideas for Socially Conscious Psychology Education. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/stl0000320
  • Costa, C.N., Park, N, & Kira, M. (2021). #ArmMeWith: Resources for Teacher Wellbeing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 11(2), 20-37. doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v11i2.1365
  • Costa, C.N. & Mims, L. (2020). Using Notecard Check-Ins to Build Relationships and Establish a Climate of Care. College Teaching. doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2020.1797619

Courses taught by Christina Costa

Winter Term 2025 (future)

Fall Term 2024

Winter Term 2024

Fall Term 2023