Adnan Çelik

Adnan Çelik, anthropologist and historian, is an Associate Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS) in Paris. He is the author of Dans l’ombre de l’État : Kurdes contre Kurdes (Brepols, 2021), and co-author of Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South (Pluto, 2024) with M. Novelli, B. Kutan, P. Kane, T. Pherali, and S. Benjamin. He also co-authored La Malédiction: Le génocide des Arméniens dans la mémoire des Kurdes de Diyarbekir (L’Harmattan, 2021) with Namık Kemal Dinç, and co-edited Kurds in Turkey: Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Experiences (Lexington Books, 2019) with Lucie Drechselová. His research focuses on political violence, Kurdish memorial regimes, and transnational activism.