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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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Chelsea Southworth, University of Notre Dame

Research Grants (May 2023)

Effects of early adversity on social development and fitness in adolescent female baboons

Christina Mutinda, University of Dar es Salaam

Baldwin Fellowship (May 2023)

First Year Baldwin Support

Christopher Beard, University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.

Research Grants (May 2023)

Early primate evolution in Big Bend National Park, Texas

David R. Braun, Koobi Fora Field School

Joan Cogswell Donner Field School Scholarship (May 2023)

The Koobi Fora Research and Training Program

Eipa Emmanuel Aoron, Harvard University

Baldwin Fellowship (May 2023)

Second Year Baldwin Support

Elisabetta Palagi, University of Pisa

Research Grants (May 2023)

Science for reconciliation: What an Ethiopian monkey tells about peace-making

Ella Brown, University of Michigan

Research Grants (May 2023)

Do social environments influence the timing of male maturation in a close human relative?

Emma Finestone, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Research Grants (May 2023)

Raw material procurement through the Stone Age on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya

Everlyne Omondi, University at Albany

Baldwin Fellowship (May 2023)

Second Year Baldwin Support

Fabrice Demeter, University of Copenhagen

Research Grants (May 2023)

Denisovans and early modern humans in northern Laos: Climate dynamics and hominins turnover in Late Pleistocene Southeast Asia

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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