Program Coordinators:
Dr.phil. Imam Ardhianto
The Decolonizing Humanities Fellowship is a premier program hosted by the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, this initiative invites mid-career academics from the Global South to challenge the prevailing colonial and Eurocentric frameworks within global humanities.
The fellowship serves as a direct response to the structural inequalities that have long hindered access, collaboration, and conceptual interventions by Global South scholars in international academic discourses. Based at Universitas Indonesia—a leading institution in Southeast Asia—the program spans six to twelve months, focusing on collaborative research and knowledge dissemination.
Through a “South-to-South” approach, the fellowship fosters epistemological experimentation and the cultivation of sustainable collaborative networks, aiming to mainstream Southern perspectives within the humanities. By providing both material and intellectual support, this initiative seeks to build a critical and experimental academic ecosystem dedicated to the global transformation of decolonial thought.
