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!
The search results will show you:
- The recipient’s name
- Institutional affiliation at the time they were awarded their grant or scholarship
- Date and month the award was approved
- Grant or scholarship program
- Project title
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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