PhD Candidate
Latin America & the Caribbean
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/sarahsears
Research Interests
- U.S.-Mexico border
- Environmental history
- Latin America and the world
- Migration histories
Publications
- Review of Rosier, Paul C., Environmental Justice in North America, H-Environment, H-Net Reviews, May 2024
- “Beyond the River’s Violence: Reconsidering the Chamizal Border Dispute,”Diplomatic History, May 2023
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with Kevan Malone, “Conflict and Cooperation at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Very Short History,” UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation blog, May 2023
Awards
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Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize (SHAFR) for best article on U.S. foreign relations by an early-career scholar (2024)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (Fall 2020)
Grants & Fellowships
- SHAFR Samuel Flagg Bemis Grant (2024)
- Gunther Barth Fellowship, Bancroft Library (2023)
- Bendix-Sharlin Fellowship, UC Berkeley Global, International & Area Studies (2023)
- American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Grant (2023)
- Arizona Historical Society Research Fellowship (2023)
- Dissertation Fellowship, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (2022-2023)
- John L. Simpson ABD Graduate Student Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley Global, International & Area Studies (2022-2023)
- Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley Global, International & Area Studies (2021)
- Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellowship (Summer 2020)
- Atlantic 10 Postgraduate Scholarship (2018)
Teaching Experience
Graduate Student Instructor, US History through Reconstruction (Fall 2021)
Graduate Student Instructor, Modern Latin America (Spring 2021)
Graduate Student Instructor, Becoming Latin America, 1492-1910 (Fall 2021)
Reader, Encounter & Conquest in Indigenous America (Fall 2023)
Reader, Mexican American Histories (Spring 2022)
Reader, Immigrants and Immigration as US History (Summer 2021)
Education
MA in History, UC Berkeley (2022)
BA in Latin American Studies, Davidson College (2018)