Dear Friends,
Separately from the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies post I shared earlier this afternoon, The Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies also has a call out for postdoctoral fellowships.
We invite applications for a postdoctoral position (junior or senior, both three years) at the
Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies. This is a vibrant, interdisciplinary research group focusing on South Asia and committed to working with primary sources. The applications run through the Flemish Research Fund, FWO.
This fellowship is open to scholars worldwide. There are two fellowship opportunities: the Junior FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is open to those who have received their PhDs within the past three years and the Senior FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is open to those who have received their PhD no earlier than three years ago and no later than six. Those who have successfully obtained a Junior Fellowship are automatically eligible to apply for a Senior Fellowship after thus potentially bringing the total fellowship length to six years. This year's application cycle will open on September 18, 2025 with a deadline of November 17, 2025 at 17.00 CET. After the initial deadline, positively reviewed applicants are invited to participate in an interview process in the spring. Results will be announced on May 21, 2026 with successful applicants able to choose a starting date of either October 1 or November 1, 2026.
Projects dealing with topics falling broadly under South Asian Studies/Indology are encouraged.
If you are interested in applying, please send your CV and a brief abstract of a potential project topic to the supervisor, or supervisors if you would like to do a multidisciplinary project, you would like to apply with the support of. We encourage interested folk to contact us early as the application process can be somewhat rigorous.
Feel free to forward this information to anyone who may be interested.
With our best wishes,
The GCSAS
(Eva De Clercq, Charles DiSimone, and Sara Mondini)