NYU Shanghai Center for Global Asia Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The Center for Global Asia (CGA) at NYU Shanghai invites applications for 23 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Global Asia Studies pending budgetary approval.

The Center has recently been awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to establish a Global Asia Hub in Shanghai. This initiative aims to advance collaborative research capacity-building and curricular development in the emerging field of Global Asia Studies. As part of this project CGA seeks applicants whose research engages with one or more of the following thematic areas:

• AsianMigration and Diaspora

• Environment and Climate

• Transregional Connections and Circulations

• Comparative Urbanisms and Political Ideologies

Applicants should propose projects that adoptconnective and/or comparative approacheswithin the framework of Global Asia. Research must engageat least two regions within Asia orone region of Asia in relation to another part of the world. The research statement should clearly articulate how the proposed project contributes to the conceptual and methodological development of Global Asia Studies.

In addition to pursuing their own research under the guidance of a designated faculty mentor selected fellows will be expected to participate actively in the Centers Luce-funded initiatives contributing to collaborative research activities capacity-building programs and curricular development efforts.

Appointments are forup to two years contingent upon satisfactory performance and the availability of funding.

Terms of employment at NYU Shanghai are comparable to NYU New York and other U.S. institutions.

Applicants must have received theirPhD no earlier than 2023. Candidates who expect to complete all requirements for the PhD in 2026 are also eligible to apply provided that the degree has been formally awarded before the start of the appointment.