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Research Professor ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’
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Forschungsschwerpunkte
Archive, Museen und Sammlungen
Kritische Daten- und Digitalisierungsforschung
Diasporische Erinnerungsarbeit
Science and technology studies
Vita
Tahani Nadim holds the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ at Ruhr University Bochum and the College for Social Sciences and Humanities since 2025. She has previously held a junior professorship in social and cultural anthropology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in a joint appointment with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN). At the MfN she co-lead the ‚Centre for the Humanities of Nature‘, which she co-founded in 2018. She was spokesperson and coordinator (together with Prof. Dr. Meike Hopp) of the joint research project ‘Museums and society: mapping the social’ (2020–2024). She has worked as a programme manager at the Women’s Art Library in London, an editor at Black Dog Publishing and a researcher in Goldsmiths Library. Tahani Nadim holds a PhD in sociology of science from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and a BA in the History of Art and Design from Camberwell College of Arts, London.
Herausgeberschaften
Heumann, Ina, and Tahani Nadim. 2022. Animals as Objects? Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. www.animalsasobjects.org.
Vennen, Mareike, Tahani Nadim, Ina Heumann, and Filippo Bertoni, eds. 2024. Logistical Natures: Trade, Traffics, and Transformations in Natural History Collecting. Vol. 54. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2024.54.2.125.
Nadim, Tahani, and Neli Wagner, eds. 2018. The Influencing Machine. NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst.
Aufsätze (Auswahl)
Nadim, Tahani, and Regina Sarreiter. 2026. ‘Rassismus Im Museum’. In Rassismusforschung: Handbuch Für Wissenschaft, Studium Und Praxis, edited by Manuela Bojadzijev, Paul Mecheril, Patrice Poutrus, and Matthias Quent. Nomos.
Nadim, Tahani. 2024a. ‘Archiving Puddles’. In Pfützenarchiv, edited by Mirja Busch. Vexer.
Nadim, Tahani. 2024b. ‘Seeds: German East Africa, 1892’. In The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, edited by Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, and Helen Verran. Fordham University Press.
Nadim, Tahani. 2022. ‘All the Data Creatures’. In Bioinformation Worlds and Futures, edited by E. J. Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco. Routledge Studies in Anthropology. Routledge.
Nadim, Tahani. 2021. ‘The Datafication of Nature: Data Formations and New Scales in Natural History’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27 (S1): 62–75. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13480.
