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Mostafa Khalili is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Prior to his position at TUFS, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research at Kyoto University and held a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sophia University. Khalili has participated in international visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies and at Sciences Po, where he conducted research on comparative minority politics in the Middle East. His research emphasizes anthropology, ethnicity, boundary-making, and minority nationalism, with a particular focus on politically unstable borderlands. Khalili has conducted extensive long-term fieldwork in the Kurdish tri-border regions of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, exploring cross-border networks, political mobilization, and the shifting forms of local authority. His work has been published in journals such as Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and the Journal of Global Studies. He is currently completing a monograph on everyday ethnicity among Kurmanji-speaking Kurds in Iran.