Sandra Musanti, Ph.D.
Dr. Sandra I. Musanti is an Associate Professor in the Bilingual and Literacy Studies Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies from the University of New Mexico. She was a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as, a project funded by the NSF. She has over 20 years of experience in teacher education in Argentina and in the United States. Presently, her research interests focus on pre-service and in-service bilingual teacher development across content areas, practice-based and translanguaging approaches in bilingual teacher preparation, novice bilingual teachers’ repertoire of practice development and identity construction, and translanguaging pedagogies in Hispanic serving institutions.