Deadline:
November 17, 2025
Location(s)
United States of America
Princeton University
Overview
The Fung Global Fellows Program brings exceptional international scholars to Princeton for a shared year of research, writing, and collaboration around a common topic.
Uniting early-career research scholars, postdoctoral research associates, and renowned Princeton faculty, the program reflects Princeton’s commitment to engaging with scholars from around the world and inspiring ideas that transcend borders
Details
2025-26: Postimperial Spaces of Amnesia
The program for the academic year 2025-26 will focus on "Postimperial Spaces of Amnesia." While the current fellows are in conversation investigating the residues of colonialism in diverse parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this next group will expand the conversation to examine the willed amnesia, or yet nostalgia, concerning the imperial past-in former metropoles and colonies alike, where memories of often violent processes of expropriation have frequently been distanced in time and space, erased, or are simply not recalled today. This is despite the continuum of supply and demand straddling the postcolonial moment. One might think, for example, of the global demand for products with plantation antecedents such as coffee and rubber; ongoing issues of migration, mobility and citizenship; or decisions about museums, monuments, and the content of school curricula. Just where and when does the question of the colonial past figure in the modern public sphere as governments make decisions about how to remember (or forget) while movements seek social justice or reparations? What is forgotten when something else is recalled and celebrated? Who decides when the colonial came to an end?
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
- Early-career scholars will be appointed at the rank of Visiting Research Scholar. To be eligible, applicants must have received their Ph.D. (or equivalent) generally after September 1, 2016. Candidates who are currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program or employed as postdocs are not eligible to apply.
- Fellowships will be awarded to those employed outside the United States who have a faculty appointment or a professional research appointment, and they will be expected to return to their positions at the conclusion of the fellowship.
- Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who have already demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise but are still at the beginning of their careers. Criteria for the fellowship include the strength of the candidate’s research projects, the relationship of those projects to the program’s theme, the candidate’s previous scholarly work, the candidate’s ability to contribute to the intellectual life and intellectual exchange of the program, and the candidate’s work experience outside the United States. The selection committee is looking to establish a cohort of fellows whose work represents any region of the world, with any disciplinary background in the humanities and social sciences.
- Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Dates
Deadline: November 17, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
- What is the duration of the fellowship? Fellowships are for one academic year, 10 months from September to June.
- What salary can I expect? Within the limits of its resources, it is the intent of the program to provide a salary that equals the normal salary paid to a fellow at his or her home institution. In cases where the fellow’s base salary scale is significantly below the norm, salaries may be adjusted upward to compensate. Fellows will be eligible for health insurance through the Princeton University benefits plan.
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