Patricia Sánchez

Patricia Sánchez, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her scholarship focuses on bilingual education, Latinx education, immigration, transnationalism, and teacher preparation.

Sánchez is a coauthor of Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, contributing the chapter “Cruzando fronteras: Negotiating the Stories of Latina/o Immigrant and Transnational Children” with Maité Landa. She also coauthored the bilingual children’s book Recuerdo mis raíces y vivo mis tradiciones/Remembering My Roots and Living My Traditions, which received the 2006 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award.