For Global Studies Assistant Professor Martha Chew Sanchez, global studies is a profession and a passion. Sanchez offers courses in intercultural studies, border studies, popular culture, migration, nationalism and transnationalism.  She says, “Teaching is a delicate vocation and serious responsibility in which I have been entrusted with the minds and souls of young people.”  Sanchez hopes “to create an environment where all participants in the learning experience feel safe to challenge the material and others’ positions.” In June, the University of New Mexico Press published Sanchez’s book Corridos in Migrant Memory.  She is conducting an “analysis of social phenomena that takes place at the U.S.-Mexico border, an area at the crossroads of history, postcolonial theory, sociology, linguistics, literature, anthropology, and Chicano studies,” she says.  Additionally, Sanchez says, “I study popular culture in Spanish-speaking countries and the problem of Mexican national identity based on the mestizo (mixed ethnicity) concept.” Sanchez came to St. Lawrence in 2002 because, she says, she wanted “to work in a cutting-edge department with a great major and colleagues who support each other.”  She hopes to take a sabbatical so she can focus on “writing the chapters of the books I have been invited to write and also write a proposal to receive financial support to perform further fieldwork in Mexico and China,” she says. Outside the classroom, Sanchez enjoys “traveling, reading and watching foreign films, particularly from Latin America,” she says.  “I really like to know what has been done outside the U.S.”