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#IAS_NUQ seeks outstanding candidates for postdoctoral fellowships focused on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. Postdocs pursue original research and contribute to #IAS_NUQ’s mission and programming.
We welcome scholars working on Arab media, comparative or transnational projects across Latin America, Africa, and the Arab world, or exploring Southern Digitalities. Fellows are expected to work on campus at least four days a week and may teach one course depending on institutional needs.
Postdocs receive a competitive stipend, research funds, relocation assistance, housing, local health insurance, and access to libraries and workspace. Fellowships are renewable for up to three years based on annual reviews and program needs.
Deadline: December 1, 2025
The Southern Digitalities Summer School is designed to develop critical skills for early career scholars of media and communication working on digital transformations across a broad range of Asian contexts, spanning West, South, Central, East, Southeast Asia, and beyond. At the heart of the summer school is the concept of Southern digitalities—a notion that invites us to rethink how we theorize digitalities i.e. the condition of living in digital cultures by taking seriously digital experiences, cultures, and technology in the Global South, a nexus made up of diverse and interconnected digital encounters, practices, and frictions, rather than a neatly defined geography.
The 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School is co-organized by the Center for Digital Cultures and Societies (University of Queensland, Australia), the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ) (Northwestern University in Qatar), and the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts (Vietnam National University, Vietnam).
Deadline: December 10, 2025
This year’s preconference continues our deep dive into the intellectual and epistemic common grounds, interactions, and constructive divergences in African and Arab scholarship on media and culture, which began at #ICA2025 as part of the preconference on “Echoes and Overlaps in Arab and African Thought on Media and Culture” held at CU Boulder. Guided by long-standing—and more recent—calls to decolonize and de-Westernize knowledge (see Bosch 2025 for instance), we draw attention to Arab and African scholarship on media and culture which has been, and continues to be, systematically occluded due to its form, location, language, race, nationality, and limited access to journals, funding, or distribution circuits. More than an invitation to talk back to the West, our endeavor is first and foremost driven by a desire to forge new directions for media and communication research by building on persistent—yet often repressed—theories, methods, and literatures within Africa and the Arab world.
This one-day preconference is jointly organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (#IAS_NUQ) at Northwestern University in Qatar, the Centre for Film and Media Studies and Digital Media Sociology Lab at the University of Cape Town, and the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder, with support from Carnegie Foundation of New York through the Arab Information and Media Studies (AIMS) project at #IAS_NUQ.
Deadline: January 9, 2026
This call for applications is intended for researchers wishing to spend all or part of their institutional leave/sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) pursuing a research project of relevance to the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South.
In addition to pursuing their own research projects, #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows are fully engaged in the intellectual life of the Institute. Fellows participate in research groups, receive feedback on their work-in-progress, and take part in #IAS_NUQ events. They are expected to present publicly on their research/creative scholarship and are encouraged to produce one multilingual working paper or creative output with #IAS_NUQ Press during their affiliation with the Institute.
The duration of an #IAS_NUQ Global Fellowship is a minimum of one month and a maximum of one academic term.
This is a residential fellowship; #IAS_NUQ Global Fellows are therefore expected to work on campus at least four days a week during the period of their fellowship.
Deadline: January 15, 2026
Our Faculty Grants – including the #IAS_NUQ Global South Research Grant and the #IAS_NUQ Conference and Workshop Grant – support NU-Q faculty scholarship and mediamaking with a focus on pressing issues in the Global South using multidisciplinary, multilingual, and multimodal approaches.
Deadline: Rolling applications.