Dr. Sonia Shiri is Associate Professor, Middle East Language Programs Coordinator and Director of the Arabic FlagshiProgram at the University of Arizona. In 2019, she became Director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad CASA) Her research interests and publications focus on Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, languages in contact, study abroad, and CALL. She is a faculty member of the Second Language Acquisition Teaching SLAT) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Before joining MENAS, Dr. Sonia Shiri coordinated the Arabic Program at the University of California, Berkeley, taught Arabic at Oxford University where she was a Senior Fellow at St. Antony’s College, and held a Research Fellowshiat the Center for Women and Gender at Stanford University. From 2009-2012, she acted as Senior Academic Director of the Critical Language Scholarshi(CLS) overseeing curriculum development, program administration, and teacher training in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and Oman. During 2002-2005, she served as the Academic and Outreach Coordinator for the Berkeley Language Center. In 2007, Dr. Sonia Shiri received UC Berkeley’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorshiof Graduate Student Instructors” then CALICO’s “Access to Language Education Award” in 2008. In 2017, she was a Fellow of the UA Academic LeadershiInstitute, was nominated in 2016 for the ACTFL Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education, and currently serves on the editorial board of the Foreign Language Annals and Critical Multilingualism Studies.