Call for Applications | Research Assistant | ‘Love Among the Ruins: Tracing Melancholia in Vrindavan’! NLSIU!

NLSIU invites applications for the following positions under the project ‘Love Among the Ruins: Tracing Melancholia in Vrindavan’, funded by the Post-PhD Grant awarded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation to NLS Faculty member Dr. Atreyee Majumder. This is a part-time contractual assignment (9 months) and may be held remotely.

Role

This part-time position requires desk assistance – editing, proofreading, archiving, making and maintaining detailed bibliographies – to the ethnographic research being conducted in the project Love Among the Ruins: Tracing Melancholia in Vrindavan by Dr. Atreyee Majumder, Associate Professor (Social Sciences) at NLSIU. Details of the PI and the project generally are available here. It will run from September 1, 2024 until May 31, 2025, for a period of nine months and will pay 30000 INR per month.

The researcher will work under direct supervision of Dr. Atreyee Majumder, the Principal Investigator of the project.

Who should apply?

Anyone with a Master’s degree or continuing at a doctoral programme in social sciences or humanities.
Excellent writing and editing skills.
Research and archiving skills.
Excellent communication, organising and time management skills.