Firat Bozcali is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political and legal anthropology, border studies, science and technology studies, and Middle Eastern Studies, with a focus on modern Turkish and Kurdish politics. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Mellon Foundation, The Connaught Fund (based in Canada), and Raoul Wallenberg Institute. His publications include a number of articles in both English and Turkish in journals such as American Ethnologist, Middle East Report, and Toplum ve Bilim (Turkish), as well as edited volumes such as Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory. His commentaries, book reviews, and journalistic reports have appeared in various venues, including Cultural Anthropology, Political and Legal Anthropological Review (PoLAR), New Perspectives on Turkey, Arab Studies Journal, Birikim (Turkish), Jadaliyya, and the Kurdish Globe (based in Iraqi Kurdistan). He also translated Partha Chatterjee’s Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World into Turkish.
