Kim Griffin

Kim Griffin received her undergraduate degree in Secondary Education-Spanish from SUNY Oswego and her M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury College in Spain.  That began a thirty year relationship with Middlebury as Assistant Director, Professor and then, after receiving a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from The Ohio State University, as Director of the program in Spain.  Griffin has directed language departments, translation and applied linguistics degree programs, as well as international programs at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and the Universidad Europea del Atlántico.  She won a research fellowship with the University of Cantabria in conjunction with the newly created Comillas Foundation in Cantabria, Spain. During this time she established and directed a study abroad program for high school students through the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academies. She now returns to Middlebury after a stint of eight years directing the Programa de Estudios Hispánicos en Córdoba (PRESHCO). Griffin lectures and publishes scholarly articles on study abroad and second language adquisition.