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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Jill Pruetz, Texas State University
Primate Research Fund (December 2023)
Primate Research Fund: Fongoli
João Marreiros, Leibniz-Zentrum fur Archaologie (LEIZA)
Research Grants (December 2023)
On the origins of human technological changes: New insights from stone tool use during the Late Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Levant
Julien Louys, Griffith University
Research Grants (December 2023)
Age and geological context of an early modern human fossil deposit from Vietnam
Kathleen Grogan, The University of Cincinnati
Research Grants (December 2023)
The epigenomics of lifestyle and environmental transitions in the Batwa
Lillian Fornof, Harvard University
Research Grants (December 2023)
How motherhood shapes patterns of female sociality and social relationships
Lotan Edeltin, The Israel Prehistoric Society
Research Grants (December 2023)
Late Middle - Early Upper Paleolithic (~80-40 ka. cal. BP.) in the Levant: Cultural diversity and population dynamics, a view from Shualim Rockshelter, Israel
Marie Charpentier, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Primate Research Fund (December 2023)
Mandrillus Project
McKensey Miller, University of Michigan
Research Grants (December 2023)
Adaptation to an environmental extreme in a close human relative
Meredith Carlson, University of California, Davis
Research Grants (December 2023)
Developing an archaeology of white-faced capuchins, Coiba, Panama
Michael Jensen-Seaman, Duquesne University
Research Grants (December 2023)
Evolutionary functional analysis of male reproductive proteins in primates