About Lean Sweeney
MICRO-BIO
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Lean Sweeney focuses on borders, crime, migration and ethnicity in Latin America, especially Mexico and Central America
EXPERIENCE
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University of New Mexico
- Teaching Assistant
- History
- Present
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University of Virginia
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- History
- January 2021 to Present
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University of New Mexico, Endicott College Mexico City campus, University of Massachusetts, Mass Bay Community College
- Adjunct Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant/Translator
- History, Literature, Writing, Humanities, and American Studies
- January 2002 to Present
EDUCATION
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University of New Mexico
- PhD candidate, Latin American History
- January 2012 to Present
Anticipating December 2018 defense of dissertation, entitled "Stateless Space and Nationless Citizens: Tools of State-Making on the Chiapas-Guatemala Border, 1821-1899."
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Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- MA, Mexican History
- January 1997 to September 2004
Awarded High Honors for contribution in the field for Master's thesis, "Supervivencia de los bandidos: Los mayas icaiche y la politica fronteriza del sureste de Yucatan, 1847-1904."
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University of California
- BA (Double Major, History and Comparative Literature)
- September 1990 to December 1994
Thesis in History: "AMNLAE and the Nicaraguan Feminist Movement Under the Sandinistas." Thesis in Comparative Literature: "The Christianization of Arthurian Tales."
DISCIPLINES
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Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies, Other
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Ethnic Studies
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Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, And Group Studies
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Hispanic And Latin American Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, General
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Latin American And Caribbean Studies
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Latin American Studies
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History And Political Science
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European History
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American History (United States)
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Theatre Literature, History And Criticism
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History And Language/Literature
Interests
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Cultural Geography
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Law And Criminality
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Citizenship And Migration
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Borderlands And Frontiers
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Central America
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Mexico
Languages
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English
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Portuguese
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Spanish