Ramazan Aras is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario in 2009. He worked as teaching assistant in the years of 2005-2007 and 2008-2009 at the Department of Anthropology at Western. Later, Dr. Aras worked as Assist. Prof. and Founding Chair of Anthropology Department at Mardin Artuklu University from July 2010 to March 2017. He started to work as a Founding Chair of Sociology Department at Ibn Haldun University in March 2017 and currently working at the same department. The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain (Routledge, 2013), Crossing Borders: Socio-cultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Turkey (Çizgi Kitabevi, Editor, 2014, in Turkish), Landmine and Smuggler: The Making and Unmaking Practices of Turkish-Syrian Border (Çizgi Kitabevi, 2015, in Turkish), The Wall: The Making and Unmaking of Turkish-Syrian Border (Palgrave 2020), Anthropology and Sociology of Emotions: Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives from Turkey and Beyond (Ed., Ibn Haldun University Press, 2024) and Palestine and the Future of Global Affairs: Power, Language and Colonialism (Eds, with Ahmet Yusuf Özdemir, Ibn Haldun University Press, 2025) are some of his works.