Ramazan Aras is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. He received his BA degree in Sociology from Sakarya University in 2000, his MA degree in History from Boğaziçi University in 2005 and his Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada 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 (Editor, 2014, in Turkish), Landmine and Smuggler: The Making and Unmaking Practices of Turkish-Syrian Border (2015, in Turkish) and The Wall: The Making and Unmaking of Turkish-Syrian Border (Palgrave 2020)  are some of his works.