Dr. Mohammadpour is a sociologist and anthropologist from Eastern/Iranian Kurdistan. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Shiraz University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research focuses on raciolinguistic ideologies, statelessness, sovereignty, colonialism, Orientalism, race, ethnicity, and various other topics. His work has been published in numerous journals, including American Anthropologist, The British Journal of Sociology, and Third World Quarterly.