Nahema Hanafi (Fontainebleau, 4 July 1983) is a French historian and a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the University of Angers.

In 2012, Nahema Hanafi defended a thesis in history under the direction of Vincent Barras and Sylvie Mouysset entitled Le frisson et le baume : souffrantes et soignantes au siècle des Lumières, at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and that of the University of Lausanne.

[2][3] In the continuity of Hanafi's research on the history of medicine and gender, she is interested in the Italian castrati of the modern period by investigating the medical fabrication of sex and its possible reappropriations by the singers, as well as the notion of gender fluidity.

She is also interested in epistolary practices and the self-narratives they generate over a long period of time, and in particular in the power of the written word as a tool for social transformation in her research on the fraudulent e-mails of Ivorian "grazers".

[6] The following year, Hanafi became a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at the University of Angers,[6] within the TEMOS (Temps, Mondes, Sociétés) (Time, World, Societies) laboratory.