Decolonising Humanities Fellowship
Are you a Southeast Asia (excluding Indonesia) or Africa scholar committed to challenging colonial legacies and reimagining foundational concepts in the humanities from a Global South perspective?
The Decolonising Humanities Fellowship, hosted by the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia (UI), supported by Gerda Henkel Stiftung, is a critical initiative responding to the persistent dominance of colonial and Eurocentric frameworks in global humanities scholarship. Structural inequities continue to limit opportunities for scholars in the Global South to lead transformative, conceptual interventions, especially by restricting access to vital scholarly exchange, collaboration, and structured research.
This fellowship is explicitly designed to counter these structural limitations by championing South-to-South epistemological experimentation and mainstreaming.
Recognising UI’s strength as a flagship institution in Southeast Asia and its strategic location at the crossroads of Asia and the Pacific, the program offers an ideal environment to foster deep scholarly engagement. Our core objective is to establish a sustained, collaborative network of humanities scholars dedicated to advancing decolonial thinking. By prioritising engagement and alternative trajectories beyond North-bound academic pathways, the fellowship provides both material and intellectual support. This effort aims to cultivate a shared academic ecosystem that nurtures experimental, critical humanities and drives the mainstreaming of knowledge grounded in Southern perspectives. This initiative is proudly aligned with and extends the ongoing commitments of the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
The Decolonising Humanities Fellowship invites mid-career scholars to participate in a transformative program at Universitas Indonesia, a leading institution in Southeast Asia. This initiative offers a unique opportunity to dedicate 6-12 months to research, collaboration, and knowledge dissemination, with an explicit focus on fostering South-to-South scholarly exchange and epistemological mainstreaming.
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Deadline: 30 April 2026
