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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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Isis Mesfin, University of Johannesburg

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)

Mormolo Archaeological Project

Jordan Wostbrock, Yale University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Development of a triple oxygen framework to investigate seasonal hydroclimate at early hominin sites

Katharine Jack, Tulane University

Primate Research Fund (December 2024)

Santa Rosa Primate Project, Santa Rosa Sector of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

Laure Metz, LAMPEA UMR 7269

Research Grants (December 2024)

The sapiens colonization of Europe. The Levantine Early Upper Paleolithic and the question of the Chatelperronian.

Mariam Bundala, University of Dar es Salaam

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (December 2024)

The Manyara Beds at Makuyuni Arusha region, Northern Tanzania

Mihailo Jovanovic, Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social (IPHES)

Research Grants (December 2024)

Reconstructing paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental conditions of the Mala Balanica (Serbia, East Europe) hominin

Myra Laird, Pennsylvania State University

Research Grants (December 2024)

Interactions between dental microwear formation and dental morphology in primates

Nelson Novo, IPGP-CENPAT-CONICET

Research Grants (December 2024)

The youngest and possibly the last non-human primates inhabiting Patagonia, and their associated fauna

Noora Taipale, University of Liege

Research Grants (December 2024)

Experiment-based approach to Middle Stone Age artisanship at Rose Cottage Cave

Patricia Wright, WISE Tropics, Inc.

Research Grants (December 2024)

emergency grant: Reconnaissance to Explore Florence’s Cave Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

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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