Christopher Sands

Christopher Sands is the Director of the Center for Canadian Studies and Faculty Lead for Technology and Culture. From 2019 until 2021, he served as Interim Director of the Latin American Studies Program at SAIS.

Dr. Sands is Director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and staff director for the Wilson Task Force on Public Health and the U.S. - Canadian Border. He is co-host (with Maryscott Greenwood) of the Canusa Street podcast, and a regular on the Wilson Center’s Americas 360 podcast.

Dr. Sands’ latest book is Canada and the United States: Differences that Count 5th edition with David M. Thomas (University of Toronto Press, 2022). He is a member of the editorial board for Canadian Foreign Policy Journal and a board member of the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Sands earned a B.A. in political science from Macalester College, and his M.A. in international economics (1994) and Ph.D. in international relations and Canadian Studies (2009) from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He was a Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow at Carleton University’ Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (1999 – 2000).