Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Expertise:
Migration, Human-Animal Relationships, Social Movements, Anthropology, Kinship, Globalization, Activism, Nationalism
Biography
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is an expert on the anthropology of migration, gender, indigeneity, kinship, and care. He also focuses on multi-species ethnography, legal anthropology, and the anthropology of social movements, specifically the study of activism and animal rights in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands.
His research specialties include globalization, animal rights movements, and the relationship between indigeneity and nationalism in regards to the Mexican military.
Sandoval-Cervantes has been published in numerous academic publications including A Geography of Coexistence and Anthropology News.
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oregon
- M.Sc., Philosophy of Social Science, London School of Economics
- B.A., Anthropology, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
Related Links
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes In The News
Public Good
Speaking with the street vendors standing at Las Vegas intersections and highway off ramps on Public Good — a podcast audio series about Southern Nevada's urban public spaces and the people who depend on them.
Los Angeles Times
Despite the fact that Genaro García Luna, former security secretary in the six-year term of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and one of the main implementers of the so-called "war on drugs", was found guilty of drug trafficking just last week, many people in Mexico are still waiting for him to be investigated for his role in the death and forced disappearance of thousands of people.
Articles Featuring Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Arts and Culture
| December 30, 2020
UNLV Newsmakers 2020: Social Justice
A sampling of university experts who sounded off on the year’s monumental movements surrounding race, ethnicity, and gender.