Cristina Sanz

CRISTINA SANZ is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Georgetown University. She co-directs the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition and is the Director of the Intensive & School of Foreign Service Language Programs. She is also responsible for the IRL Catalan Lectureship.

Dr. Sanz is an expert on bilingualism and second language acquisition. Her volume Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition received the MLA's Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize for an Outstanding Research Publication in 2006.

Professor Sanz has taught graduate courses in Spain and the Philippines. She has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Instituto Cervantes, and the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). Dr. Sanz is the Director of the Georgetown-at-Barcelona Summer Study Abroad Program.