Lindsey M. Sutton

US-Mexico Borderlands, Latin America, cartography, gender, field techniques, political economy, rural livelihoods, human environment, qualitative and quantitative methods

Banámichi, Sonora, Mexico 2008
Three months of funded onsite socioeconomic study using interviews, surveying, cartographic analysis, and descriptive statistics to investigate and analyze livelihood strategies in rural Mexico towns

Sky Islands Institute, Sonora, Arizona, New Mexico 2007
Two weeks paid research associate for fieldwork in the US Mexico borderlands to establish an on-going summer field seminar on the cultural/environmental history of the region.

Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico 2007
A five-day field study investigating cultural and economic landscape change using repeat photography

Huépac, Sonora, Mexico 2007
A five-day field study investigating landscape change in rural Sonoran towns using comparative analysis through historical maps

Columbus, New Mexico and Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico 2004
Two months of funded field research investigating cross border socioeconomic networks and local community binational cooperation

Finn, J., A. Fernandez, L.M. Sutton, D.D. Arreola, C.D. Allen, C. Smith (under revision). Puerto Peñasco, Fishing Village to Tourist Mecca. Geographical Review.

Arreola, D.D., W. E. Doolittle, L.M. Sutton, A. Fernandez, J. Finn, C. Smith, and C.D. Allen. 2009. Huépac Revisited: Cultural Remapping of a Sonoran Townscape. Journal of the Southwest 51(2): forthcoming.

Sutton, L.M., H. Colson, G. Judkins, and C.D. Allen, eds. 2007. Introductory Physical Geography Laboratory Manual, 5^th edition. Hayden McNeil: Michigan. 180 pages.

Faculty Lecturer, California State Long Beach
Geog 321 - Geography of Middle America

Teaching Associate, Arizona State University
GCU 323 - Geography of Latin America
GCU 350 - World Crises
GCU 351 - Population
GCU 424 - Geography of Middle America and the Caribbean
GPH 111 - Introduction to Physical Geography Lab

Faculty Lecturer, The George Washington University
SPAN 101 - Spanish Level 1
SPAN 102 - Spanish Level 2

2008-2009 - Graduate College Dissertation Fellowship, ASU - $18,000

2008 - Cultural Geography Fieldwork Scholarship, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers - $500

2005-2008 - University Graduate Scholar, ASU - $9,000

2007 - Melvin G. Marcus Scholarship for Fieldwork, ASU - $2,000

Sutton, L.M. (Mar 2009) Cattle is King but Mining Still Rules: Where did the Economy Go? Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV (paper).

Sutton, L.M. (Apr 2008) Fieldwork in the Rio Sonora Valley. Presentation to Geography Masters students at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Sutton, L.M. (Oct 2007) Cultural-Symbolic Transnational Ties from Phoenix to Mexico: A Shuttle Ride Away. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Long Beach, CA (paper).

Sutton, L.M. (Mar 2007) The Border Experience: A Narrative Cartography. Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA (poster).

Sutton, L.M. (Apr 2006) A Landscape of Uncertainty: South-to-North Flows at the Chihuahua-New Mexico Border. Association for Borderland Studies, Phoenix, AZ and Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL (paper).