Christopher Sands

Midwestern U.S.-Canadian Relations

Christopher Sands is an adjunct lecturer and director of the Hopkins Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also previously severed as director of the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute. Sands is a specialist on Canada, U.S.-Canadian relations, and North American economic integration. His most recent book, co-edited with David M. Thomas, is Canada and the United States: Differences That Count (Fifth edition, University of Toronto Press, 2023). Sands is a board member of the Canada-United States Law Institute, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Macdonald Laurier Institute, and the University of California Berkeley Canadian Studies Program. He was a founding member and officer of the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and he is a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. Sands also is a lecturer and course coordinator of the Canada Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. He previously taught in the School of Public Affairs at American University and in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. In 1999-2000 he received a Fulbright scholarship to work on his doctoral dissertation at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and in 2019 he was named a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. Although frequently mistaken for a Canadian, he was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.