May George

May George serves as a Lecturer in Middle East Studies and the Five College Initiative at Smith College, while also coordinating the Arabic summer program and instructing at the University of Chicago's Summer Language Institute.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Education from the University of Arizona (specializing in bilingual education)
• M.A. in Education from the University of Arizona

Dr. George's research centers on classroom pedagogy and innovative approaches in foreign language teaching within area studies contexts. She investigates the integration of technology with communicative language methods and examines bilingual education dynamics through cultural and professional lenses of second language acquisition.

Her scholarship extends to cognitive aspects of learning, including inference mechanisms and classroom dynamics such as tension and behavioral responses during exposure to novel instructional tasks.

She has been honored with prestigious fellowships:

• Andrew Mellon Fellowship
• Fredrick Douglas Fellow
• Fulbright scholarship

Dr. George has secured significant research funding including Qatar Foundation grants for K–16 workshops in Minneapolis, alongside scholarships from Smith College, the Mary F. and Maude Miller fund, and Middlebury School. With over two decades of international teaching experience, she has implemented women's education programs with United Nation Missions in Kurdistan, Iraq.

She actively leads the Arabic summer program and participates in the Five College Initiative consortium across Massachusetts liberal arts institutions.