Cristina L. H. Traina
 Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Crowe Hall, 1860 Campus Drive Rd., 4-155
Phone: (847) 491-2938
Email: c-traina@northwestern.edu
CRISTINA L. H. TRAINA is a student of Christian theology and ethics, with emphasis on Roman Catholic and feminist thought. Areas of special interest include childhood, sexuality and reproduction, environment, and the ethics of economic justice. She received her Ph.D. in theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School and has been a member of Northwestern's faculty since 1992.
She is the author of Natural Law and Feminist Ethics: the End of the Anathemas (Georgetown 1999). She is writing a book called The Sensual Mother: Maternal Experience and the Boundaries of Sexual Ethics, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. Other recent and current projects include collaborative interdisciplinary research on religion and assisted reproduction and on the history of popular American religious views of the connection between marriage and sexuality, as well as work on the ethics of American economic dependence on low-wage domestic and foreign labor.
Professor Traina regularly teaches Christian Ethics and Introduction to Christianity. In any given year she also offers courses on modern and contemporary Christian theology; religious visions of maternity, fertility, or childhood; and senior thesis research in religion. She has served as a board member of the Society of Christian Ethics and has received the Weinberg College Teaching Award.
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