Nasir Uddin (Ph.D.) is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a professor of anthropology at the University of Chittagong. Uddin held Visiting Scholar/Visiting Fellow/Visiting Professor positions at several globally leading universities and institutes including Harvard University (USA), Oxford University (UK), the University of Sydney (Australia), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, UK), the London School of Economics (LSE, UK), Johns Hopkins University (USA), East-West Center, Washington DC (USA), Heidelberg University (Germany), VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University (India), the University of Hull (UK), and Kyoto University (Japan). Uddin is known for his theory of “subhuman” life, which is widely discussed in the area of scholarship on refugees, migrants, non-citizens, asylum seekers, stateless people, IDPs, and forcibly displaced people.