Iván Sandoval-Cervantes is a cultural anthropologist from Ciudad Juárez, México and an associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

In 2022,Sandoval-Cervantes published the book titled "Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration" (University of Texas Press 2022). In “Oaxaca in Motion,” he analyzed how masculinity and femininity shape, and are shaped by, internal and transnational migrations. This book is based on ethnographic research he conducted in Santa Ana Zegache (Oaxaca), Mexico City, and in different locations along the U.S. West Coast.

He is also the co-editor of "The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era" (Lexington Books 2022).This volume, co-edited with Dr. Jennifer Byrnes, combines perspectives from both forensic and cultural anthropology, emphasizing the potential for interdisciplinary research.

His current project, which he has been developing since 2017, examines the emergent animal protection movement in urban Mexico in the midst of continuous violence and ongoing challenges to the Mexican legal system. This project seeks to understand how animals become political within specific contexts, and it is based on ethnographic fieldwork research in México (mainly in Ciudad Juárez) and on digital research. This research has been generously funded by UCLA Law, the Culture and Animals Foundation, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School.

You can read more about Sandoval-Cervantes' research projects here: Research.

Academia.edu is also available.