Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  khalili.mostafa.4vkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From Apr. 2023, To Present

  Member of Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR)
• From Feb. 2023, To Present

  Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)
• From Jan. 2023, To Present

  Member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
• From Feb. 2022, To Present

  Member of the Association for Studies of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
• From Mar. 2022, To Present

  Japan Association for Cultural Anthropology (JASCA)
• From Mar. 2016, To Present

  Japan Association for Middle East Studies

Academic Degree

• 31 Mar. 2017

  立命館アジア太平洋大学修士（アジア太平洋学）
• 19 Sep. 2020

  同志社大学博士（グローバル社会研究）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• Tabriz University（Iran）, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 卒業

Research History

• From Jan. 2023, To Mar. 2023

  Chiba University, Center for Relational Studies on Global Crises, Project Researcher
• From Dec. 2022, To Mar. 2023

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Interdisciplinary Research Unit for Global Democratic Change, 特任研究員, Project Researcher
• From Oct. 2020, To Oct. 2022

  Sophia University, JSPS International Postdoctoral Fellow (PD-Standard)
• From Apr. 2020, To Sep. 2020

  Doshisha University, Graduate School of Global Studies, Teaching Assistant
• From Apr. 2017, To Sep. 2020

  Doshisha University, Institute for Advanced Research and Education (GRM Program), Research Fellow
• From Apr. 2018, To Mar. 2020

  Doshisha University, JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)
• From Jul. 2015, To Mar. 2017

  Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, College of Asia Pacific Studies, Teaching Assistant
• From Jun. 2024, To Present

  London School of Economics and Political Science, Middle East Center, Visiting Fellow
• From Jun. 2024, To Present

  Kyoto University, Hakubi Center, Program-Specific Assistant Professor

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0003-3622-1430

• J-Global ID

  202201006989541489

• Researcher number

  50977288

• External link

  https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/profile/ja.61a50e91ceafef6e.html

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/khalili

Research

Research Interests

• anthropology, political sociology, ethnicity, nationalism, minority groups, human rights, sustainable development

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Politics, political anthropology, ethnography

Papers

• The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran: Modernity, Modernization and Social Change, 1921–1979. Maruf Cabi (London: I. B. Tauris, 2023). 217 pp. Hardcover $100. ISBN 9780755645653

  Mostafa Khalili

  Iranian Studies, 13 Mar. 2025, Corresponding author

  
• Exploring the Syncretic Dynamics between Ahl-e Haqq and Ghulat in Historical Azerbaijan

  Mostafa Khalili

  Journal of Iranian Studies (Iran Kenkyu), 01 Jul. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Corresponding author

  
• From “Green Movement” to “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Continuity and Change in the Evolution of the Protest Movement in Iran

  Mostafa Khalili

  Protest, 27 Jun. 2023

  
• Beyond a centre‐periphery approach: Inter‐minority tensions and the development of contested categories of Kurdish mobilization in Iran

  Mostafa Khalili

  Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Dec. 2022

  
• Everyday Ethnicity of Kurmanji Speaking Kurds in Iran: A Case in Political Anthropology

  Mostafa Khalili

  15 Aug. 2021

  
• Hydrogen sulfide emission and policy barriers to the sustainable development of the Olkaria geothermal power plant facilities in Kenya

  Eco Hamersma

  Journal for information, study and discussion of Global Resource Management, Mar. 2021

  
• Methodological approaches in Kurdish studies: theoretical and practical insights from the field

  Mostafa Khalili

  British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 06 Jan. 2021

  
• Between Universalism and Fundamentalism: A Critique on the Position of Conservative Shia Clergy on Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

  Jalal Peykani

  Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 26 Nov. 2020

  
• Impacts of dam construction on the livelihood of villages in Thailand and Laos along the lower Mekong basin : from the locals' perspective

  Chen Yan; Pumaneratkul Chayadit

  Journal for information, study and discussion of Global Resource Management, Mar. 2019

  
• Rethinking Kurdishness in an everyday context : a case study of the Kurmanji Kurds in Urmia city, Iran

  Mostafa Khalili

  Journal of global studies, Mar. 2019

  
• Cultural Values Influence the Attitude of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean College Students towards Cosmetic Surgery

  Nader Ghotbi

  Asian Bioethics Review, Jul. 2017

  
• A comparative study of ethnic identity among Azerbaijani speakers in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan

  Mostafa Khalili

  Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Mar. 2016

  
• The role of testimonies in Iranian folk epistemology

  Jalal Peykani

  Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Sep. 2014

  

Presentations

• The Protest Movement in Iran from the Lens of Peripheries: The Perception of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement Among Ethnic Minorities

  39th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies (JAMES), Tsukuba University, Japan.

  
• The marginalization process of the Kurmanji-speaking Kurds from the Core of Kurdish Politics in Iran.

  Kurdish Studies Conference, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK., 24 Apr. 2023

  
• From "Green Movement" to "Woman, Life, Freedom": continuity and change in the evolution of the protest movement in Iran

  International Conference on “Establishing Research Networks in the Middle East and Asia: First Inter-Core Meeting”, Center for Relational Studies on Global Crises, Chiba University, Japan., 07 Feb. 2023

  
• An Overview of Ahl-e Haqq Kalams in Azerbaijani Turkish: Divan-e Qushchu Oglu

  Seminar on “Conflicts in Boundaries and Recognition of Alevi Groups and Changes in Alevi Ethnicities in the Middle East, Europe, and America,” Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo Japan.

  
• Rethinking the Kurdishness in an Everyday Context, Anthropological Study of the Kurmanji Kurds of Iran in Urmia City

  The 3rd Conference of the Doshisha University Association of Global Studies, Kyoto, Japan., 01 Dec. 2019

  
• Kurdish activism among the Kurmanji speaking Kurds in Iran: the case study of Margavar rural district in the border of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey

  The 3rd International Kurdish Studies Conference, Middlesex University, London, UK

  
• Shifting from communal to political identity: Construction of the Kurdishness in West Azerbaijan province of Iran

  2019 BRISMES Conference, University of Leeds, UK.

  
• 35th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies (JAMES), Akita, Japan.

  The Merging Process of Tribal Identity into the Ethnic Identity: The Case Study of Qarapapaq Tribe in Sulduz Plain at the Northwest of Iran

  
• Minority Politics in Iran and the Possibilities of Balkanization: the Case of Iranian Kurds and Azerbaijanis

  13th Bled Strategic Forum, Bled, Slovenia

  
• The Dynamics of ethnic boundary making among Iranian Azerbaijanis.

  The 5th World Congress for the Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain

  
• The otherness for Iranian Azerbaijanis.

  The 1st Conference of the Doshisha University Association of Global Studies, Kyoto, Japan., 18 Oct. 2017

  
• Ethnic rights activities among the young generation of Iranian Azerbaijanis, focusing on the migrants to Chehelmetri neighborhood of Tabriz city.

  14th International Asia Pacific Conference, Beppu, Oita, Japan,

  
• Are we all Azeris? Ethnic Identity Conflict among Iranian Azerbaijanis.

  13th International Asia Pacific Conference, Beppu, Oita, Japan.

  
• Ambivalent Identities: Navigating National and Ethnic Belonging in the Revival of Azerbaijani Activism in Iran

  Mostafa Khalili

  The 15th Conference of the Asian Federation of Middle East Studies Associations (AFMA)

  
• "Women, Life, Freedom" Protests from the Lens of Peripheries: A Comparative Analysis of the Perception of "National" and "Local" Among Iranian Kurds and Azerbaijanis

  MESA 2024: Middle East Studies Association 58th annual meeting

  
• Exploring Neutrality from a Bottom-up Perspective: The Role of Saadat-e Nehri Family Clan in Local Conflict Mediation in Kurdistan

  International Conference of Reimagining Neutrality and its Research, Kyoto University, Japan.

  
• From de-tribalization to re-tribalization: Instrumentalization of tribal ties among the Kurmanji-speaking Kurds in post-revolutionary Iran.

  Kurdish Studies Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

  
• The Lateral Interplay Between the Local and Global from an Anthropological Perspective: The Case of the Kurds

  CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference 2024, Rijeka, Croatia

  
• The Metamorphosis of Iranianness from the Lens of Peripheries: the social movements and Reconsideration of the national self-perception among the ethnic groups in Iran

  ISA International Conference, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco.

  

Books and Other Publications

• “Voices from the Field: Ahl-e Haqqs in Iranian Azerbaijan” in Conflicts in Boundaries and Recognition of Alevi Groups and Changes in Alevi Ethnicities in the Middle East, Europe and America.

  Khalili, Mostafa; Takashi Sashima; Noriko Nakayama, Joint work

  Osaka International University Press, Mar. 2022

  
• Dissimilarities Beneath the Surface: Yarsanism Outside Kurdistan

  Takashi Sashima, Joint work, Osaka International University Press

  Mar. 2022

  

External funds: Kakenhi

• Minorities (dis)engagement in the majority-led social movements: a relational approach towards understanding the perception of "nation consciousness" among ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East

  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

  Basic Section 80010:Area studies-related

  Kyoto University

  KHALILI MOSTAFA

  From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2027, Granted

  social movements;ethnicity;nationalism;Kurds;protest

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-24K20991/
• Sense of Nation and Knowledge Production among the migrant communities from the Middle East

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields

  Chiba University

  酒井 啓子

  From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2028, Granted

  ナショナリズム;地域研究;知の生産;難民;紛争;宗教

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-24H00136/
• Understanding Ethnonationalistic Conflict and its Transnational Spillover from an Anthropological Perspective

  Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

  0106:Political science and related fields

  Kyoto University

  KHALILI MOSTAFA

  From 31 Aug. 2023, To 31 Mar. 2025, Granted

  minority nationalism;ethnicity;Kurds;transnationalisim;borderland

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23K18760/
• Towards a new security paradigm: Lessons from the greater Eurasian area

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields

  Doshisha University

  中西 久枝

  From 01 Apr. 2022, To 31 Mar. 2025, Granted

  トランスナショナル;安全保障;ユーラシア;非通常戦;ハイブリッド戦争;サイバー戦争;情報戦;中東ユーラシア;安全保障論;戦時と平時とグレーゾーン;イスラーム;中東研究;安全保障学;平和;サイバー行動

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22H00051/
• Protest on the Street, and Reconsider the Nation: from the view points of space, violence and resonance

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

  Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields

  Chiba University

  酒井 啓子

  From 05 Apr. 2021, To 31 Mar. 2024, Granted

  社会運動;地域研究;国際関係;ネイション意識;国際関係論;トランスナショナル;移民;国民意識;暴力;国家・社会関係

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21H04387/
• The State, Politics and Religious Nationalisms: Iran's Western Border Region in Comparative Perspective

  Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))

  Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  松永 泰行

  From 07 Oct. 2021, To 31 Mar. 2025, Granted

  クルディスタン;市民団体;イスラ―ム主義運動;ムスリム同胞団;スーフィー・タリーカ;ホジュレ;政治結社;スンナ派;イスラーム主義運動;トランスボーダー;クルド語文献;国家;政治;宗教;ナショナリズム;国境地域;イラン;クルド

  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21KK0019/