Nasima Selim is a researcher, writer, and educator. As an interdisciplinary scholar in social and cultural anthropology, medicine, and public health, she focuses on public anthropology, planetary health, environmental humanities, and the anthropology of Islam, with emphasis on Western Europe and South Asia.

Her most recent publications include “Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany” (Berghahn 2024) and “Ways of Breathing and Knowing: The Politics and Poetics of Air, Atmosphere, and the Body,” which she co-edited with Dr. Judith Albrecht (Routledge, forthcoming).

Selim studied public health at BRAC University (Dhaka, Bangladesh), followed by medical anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She received her doctorate in social and cultural anthropology from the Freie Universit?t Berlin. Following this, she carried out research and teaching at the University of Bayreuth, the Freie Universit?t Berlin, and BRAC University. She also spent a year as a research fellow at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences in Kolkata, India.

She is co-founder of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology's Public Anthropology working group and is also a member of 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) and the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Additionally, she is a lifetime member of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh.