Christopher Sands
Adjunct Lecturer
Director, Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies
About
Christopher Sands is an Adjunct Lecturer, Director of the Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies, and Faculty Co-Lead for Technology and Innovation at SAIS. He is a faculty advisor in the SAIS Doctorate in International Affairs program.
Dr. Sands is Director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1968 to provide nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers through research, analysis, and independent scholarship. He is co-host of the Canusa Street podcast, and a regular panelist on the Wilson Center’s Americas 360 podcast on Western Hemisphere affairs. Currently he is the course coordinator for the Canada Seminar at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute where he has lectured regularly on Canada and US-Canadian relations since 1997.
Dr. Sands’ recent books include Canada and the United States: Differences that Count (5th edition, University of Toronto Press, 2022) and Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, a board member of the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy, and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Ottawa-based Macdonald – Laurier Institute. Additionally, Dr. Sands serves on the Executive Committee of the Canada – United States Law Institute and an elected the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Sands earned a B.A. in political science from Macalester College (1989), 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’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (1999 – 2000).
At SAIS, Dr. Sands previously served as Interim Director of the Latin American Studies Program (2019-2021) and Faculty Lead of the Technology and Culture Focus Area (2021-2023). At Johns Hopkins, he represented SAIS on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Johns Hopkins University Research Administration (2017-2023).
Dr. Sands is Director of the Canada Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1968 to provide nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers through research, analysis, and independent scholarship. He is co-host of the Canusa Street podcast, and a regular panelist on the Wilson Center’s Americas 360 podcast on Western Hemisphere affairs. Currently he is the course coordinator for the Canada Seminar at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute where he has lectured regularly on Canada and US-Canadian relations since 1997.
Dr. Sands’ recent books include Canada and the United States: Differences that Count (5th edition, University of Toronto Press, 2022) and Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, a board member of the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy, and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Ottawa-based Macdonald – Laurier Institute. Additionally, Dr. Sands serves on the Executive Committee of the Canada – United States Law Institute and an elected the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Sands earned a B.A. in political science from Macalester College (1989), 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’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (1999 – 2000).
At SAIS, Dr. Sands previously served as Interim Director of the Latin American Studies Program (2019-2021) and Faculty Lead of the Technology and Culture Focus Area (2021-2023). At Johns Hopkins, he represented SAIS on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Johns Hopkins University Research Administration (2017-2023).