Adnan Çelik is an anthropologist and historian with a PhD in social anthropology from EHESS in Paris. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI) in Germany, and an associated member of the IFEA (French Institute for Anatolian Studies), the CETOBaC (Centre for Turkish, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, EHESS) and the DFG research network Contemporary History of Turkey (Germany).

He is the author of Dans l’ombre de l’état : Kurdes contre Kurdes (Brepols, 2021), co-author of La Malédiction: Le génocide des Arméniens dans la mémoire des Kurdes de Diyarbekir (L’Harmattan, 2021) with Namık Kemal Dinç and co-editor of Kurds in Turkey: ethnographies of heterogeneous experiences (Lexington Books, 2019) with Lucie Drechselová.