Rachel Sieder is Senior Research Professor at the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She is an associate senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, and associate fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London. She has an MA in Latin American Studies and a PhD in Politics from the University of London. Her research interests include: human rights, indigenous rights, social movements, indigenous law, legal anthropology, the state, and violence.

Amongst her most recent books are: ed. with Karina Ansolabehere and Tatiana Alfonso, The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America, Routledge (2019); ed. Demanding Justice and Security: Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America. Rutgers University Press (2017) published in Spanish as Exigiendo Justicia y Seguridad: Mujeres Indígenas y Pluralidades Legales en América Latina, CIESAS (2018); ed. with María Teresa Sierra and Rosalva Aída Hernández, Justicias Indígenas y Estado: Violencias Contemporáneas, FLACSO/CIESAS, México (2013). She is a member of the editorial board of Desacatos, and of the international editorial boards of the Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (LACES), the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (ERLACS) and Perfíles Latinoamericanos.