Nile Davies is an independent scholar with a research-based visual and textual practice.

His work with writing, archives, photography, sound and moving image explores the materiality of history—how social worlds are made and remembered through the intimacy of bodies, images and infrastructures.

Trained in anthropology, his interdisciplinary research engages questions of diaspora and nationalism, war and ethics, kinship and the afterlives of colonial science.

His doctoral research was supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Royal Anthropological Institute and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University.

Nile received his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University in New York in 2024.

Between 2022-2025, he joined the University of Sussex where he was Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Anthropology, with a joint teaching appointment in Human Rights.

He holds a Graduate Certificate in Comparative Literature and Society and MA in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, also from Columbia University, and an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London (2013).

Between 2025-2026, he is a Fellow in Residence at the Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.