Ramazan Aras

Ramazan Aras is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Founding Director of Center for Oral History and Social Memory Studies at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. He received his BA degree in Sociology from Sakarya University in 2000 and his MA degree in History from Boğaziçi University in 2005. Later, he received his Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario in 2010 under the supervision of Regna Darnell. He worked as a teaching assistant in the years 2005-2007 and 2008-2009 at the Department of Anthropology at Western. Later, Dr. Aras worked as the Founding Chair of Anthropology Department at Mardin Artuklu University from July 2010 to March 2017. His main research areas are social theory, anthropology of state, anthropology of emotions, memory, social trauma, body, place, borders and borderlands, migration, oral history, sociology and anthropology of secularism and Islam.