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Recent and Past Grantees

Curious about The Leakey Foundation’s funded research projects and scholarship recipients? Search our grants database to learn more about the human origins research, scholarships, and emergency grants made possible by our generous supporters.

Although we have been awarding grants since 1968, this searchable database only goes back to 2012, giving you more than a decade of information. You can search by program, recipient PhD status, and keywords such as topics, species, and countries. You can also search for specific dates and time periods between 2012 and today!

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Decio Muianga, Uppsala University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Technological and human transformation in the biocultural heritage of southern Mozambique

Deming Yang, American Museum of Natural History

Research Grants (December 2024)

Multi-proxy environmental reconstruction of Lemudong’o (late Miocene), Southern Kenya

Dietrich Stout, Emory University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Foundations of percussive technologies

Emily Sanford, University of California, Berkeley

Research Grants (December 2024)

The evolutionary origins of rational reasoning in response to evidence

Ester Lourenco, University of Zaragoza

Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2024)

Frank Brown African Scholarship Fund

Flavia Strani, University of Zaragoza

Research Grants (December 2024)

Role of climatic shifts in the extinction of Neanderthals from the highest glacial refugium

Fredrick Manthi, University of Utah

Research Grants (December 2024)

Excavating a Middle Pleistocene hominin site in Natodomeri, northwestern Kenya.

Georgina Luti, University of Cape Town

Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (December 2024)

Stratigraphy, Dating and Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction of the Gondolin and Kromdraai Hominin Sites, South Africa

Guilhem Mauran, New York University Office of Sponsored Programs

Research Grants (December 2024)

The social contexts of glacial-interglacial ochre exploitation at Boomplaas Cave

Haneul Jang, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and Station d'ecologie Experimentale et Theorique (SETE)

Research Grants (December 2024)

Mapping social support networks of mothers in two small-scale societies in the Congo Basin

I [name], of [city, state ZIP], bequeath the sum of $[ ] or [ ] percent of my estate to L.S.B. Leakey Foundation for Research Related to Man’s Origins, Behavior & Survival, (dba The Leakey Foundation), a nonprofit organization with a business address of 1003B O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 and a tax identification number 95-2536475 for its unrestricted use and purpose.

If you have questions, please contact Sharal Camisa Smith sharal at leakeyfoundation.org. 

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