Sharon Lunsford is an indepen­dent researcher and writer. She is also an IT contract analyst with an in-house corpo­rate paralegal background. In addition to the research inter­ests outlined on this site, a love of music helps her maintain sanity and balance in the midst of a corpo­rate career environment.

Sharon Lunsford holds an M.A. in compar­a­tive politics, with inter­na­tional relations and public law as secondary fields. She also has a B.A. degree in psychology, with German as a second major. Thanks to a child­hood spent mostly in Peru, she gained first­hand knowl­edge of Latin American society and an ability to read Spanish. She excelled in French in high school but has unfor­tu­nately forgotten much of what she learned. She does not claim to be able to speak either French or German with any effec­tive­ness but can still read them to an extent, and will occasion­ally stumble through a conver­sa­tion in Spanish. However, she is fasci­nated by the variety of languages in the world.

Sharon’s publi­ca­tions range from academic book chapters and encyclo­pedia entries to blogs about a wide variety of subjects. Her academic research inter­ests are language policy, grass­roots devel­op­ment initia­tives and polit­ical issues of indige­nous peoples. A descen­dant of early American colonists, she has a special interest in genealogy, which brings her full circle to possible future studies of boundary disputes and migra­tion patterns.

• “Ecuador” and “Mercosur” encyclo­pedia entries. 2008. In Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morris­sette, eds. Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO (Transat­lantic Relations Series).
• “Indonesia.” 2007. Chapter in Karl De Rouen Jr., and Paul Bellamy, eds. Inter­na­tional Security and the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Green­wood (Praeger).
• “Guatemala.” 2007. Chapter in Karl De Rouen Jr. and Uk Heo, eds. Civil Wars of the World: Major Conflicts Since World War II. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.
• “Language Policy, Protest and Rebel­lion.” 2000. Paper presented at annual meeting of Southern Polit­ical Science Associ­a­tion, Atlanta, Georgia.

Franchise Paralegal Life (career notes)

Compar­a­tive Linguistic Policy Research (current events and research tools)

The Back Porch News (folk music)

On My Way Through (reflec­tions on books, music and life)

Books 2 Movies (the screen­plays I’ll never write but somebody should)

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