Nida Paracha is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work investigates embodiment, relationality, and ethics in contemporary healing practices. Her book project, Healing for One Another: Sensorial Practice and the Ethics of Entanglement, explores psychedelic-assisted therapy as practiced in retreats in Mexico and the Netherlands, alongside energy-healing modalities such as Reiki and External Qi-Gong that are being redefined as biofield therapies. Through an ethnography of entanglement, the project examines these therapies as sensorial practices that cultivate capacities to perceive, inhabit, and respond to relations across the boundaries of healer and patient, self and other, and secular and spiritual domains of experience. In doing so, the project traces how people come to dream and heal for one another and opens possibilities for understanding healing as a distinct form of life.

Alongside preparing her book manuscript, articles based on her dissertation, and a short speculative fiction story emerging from her research, Paracha serves as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the College at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses in anthropology, embodiment and psychoanalysis, and social theory.