Rate My Professor Carlos Sandoval

Carlos Sandoval holds a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). After participating in social movements for the freedom of political prisoners in Mexico, he completed his graduate studies with a focus on autonomism and indigenous movements. His professional and academic work centers on the construction of the indigenous social subject through cultural and language revitalization, with particular emphasis on the Nahua people of Veracruz and community efforts to normalize the Nahuatl language.

Sandoval has served as a keynote speaker at conferences on language and cultural revitalization, including the colloquium “Nahuatl Across Borders” organized by the University of California, San Diego, and the Diploma Program “Ok Nemi Totlahtol” organized by UNAM and the Centre for Research and Higher Studies on Social Anthropology (CIESAS). He has also contributed to advocacy groups supporting Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada, especially those in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. At Kwantlen Polytechnic University, he teaches courses including ANTH 3171 Latin America and the Caribbean, SOCI 1125 Introduction to Sociology, SOCI 2230 Racialization in Canada, SOCI 3320 Sociology of Global Inequalities, and SOCI 4225 Advanced Topics in Canadian Issues. His areas of interest include social movements, indigenous movements, decolonization of education, language and cultural revitalization, labour and migration, and global inequality. One of his scholarly publications is “Displacement and Revitalization of the Nahuatl Language in the High Mountains of Veracruz.”