Ali Sipahi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Özyeğin University, Istanbul. He co-edited The Ottoman East in the Nineteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2016) and published articles in academic journals such as Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, Journal of American Academy of Religion, History and Anthropology, and Middle Eastern Studies. In 2022, he received Young Scientist Award of the Science Academy in Turkey. He is currently working on a project about American anthropology of Turkey in the 1960s, funded by TÜBİTAK, the Gerda Henkel and the Alexander von Humboldt foundations.