Hailing from Assam in India, Aditya Kiran Kakati is Lecturer at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society at the University of Groningen. He holds a PhD in International History and Anthropology from the Graduate Institute, Geneva. He is affiliate Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University and the Highland Institute, Kohima, Nagaland. He is also an associate editor for The Highlander Journal, which promotes conversations on global highlands to push the boundaries of traditional area studies. Aditya has previously been postdoctoral scholar at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris; SOAS, London; the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University. He was also a resident visiting scholar at Princeton University, the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna and Europaeum- Oxford University.