PhD Candidate
Latin America & the Caribbean
Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/sarahsears
Research Interests:
- US-Mexico border
- Environmental history
- Latin America and the world
Publications
- “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 & Fellowships:
- 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)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (Fall 2020)
- 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, Mexican American Histories (Spring 2022)
Reader, Immigrants and Immigration as US History (Summer 2021)
Education:
MA in History, UC Berkeley (2021)
BA in Latin American Studies, Davidson College (2018)