About Lean Sweeney

MICRO-BIO

  • Lean Sweeney focuses on borders, crime, migration and ethnicity in Latin America, especially Mexico and Central America

EXPERIENCE

  • University of New Mexico
    • Teaching Assistant
    • History
    • Present
  • University of Virginia
    • Visiting Assistant Professor
    • History
    • January 2021 to Present
  • 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

  • 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."

  • 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."

  • 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

  • Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies, Other

  • Ethnic Studies

  • Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, And Group Studies

  • Hispanic And Latin American Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, General

  • Latin American And Caribbean Studies

  • Latin American Studies

  • History And Political Science

  • European History

  • American History (United States)

  • Theatre Literature, History And Criticism

  • History And Language/Literature

Interests

  • Cultural Geography

  • Law And Criminality

  • Citizenship And Migration

  • Borderlands And Frontiers

  • Central America

  • Mexico

Languages

  • English

  • Portuguese

  • Spanish

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