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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Somaye Khaksar, University of Minnesota
Research Grants (May 2020)
The effect of edge segmentation on lithic blank cutting efficiency and technological transitions in the Pleistocene
Tekie Tesfamichael, Addis Ababa University
Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (May 2020)
Frank Brown Scholarship Fund
Tessa Cicak, University of Minnesota
Research Grants (May 2020)
Examining the role of competition in primate dietary morphology and isotopes
Wasim Wazir, Research Foundation, CUNY
Baldwin Fellowship (May 2020)
First Year Baldwin Support
William Lukens, James Madison University
Research Grants (May 2020)
Paleoenvironments of early-middle Miocene catarrhine localities in West Turkana, Kenya
Yossi Zaidner, Hebrew University
Research Grants (May 2020)
New Middle Paleolithic human fossils from the Levant: Excavations at Tinshemet Cave, Israel
Alice Leplongeon, KU Leuven
Research Grants (December 2019)
Chole rock shelter (Tanzania) and past human-environment interactions at the edge of Lake Victoria
Amanuel Beyin, University of Louisville
Research Grants (December 2019)
Investigation of Acheulean sites in the Red Sea coastal region of the Sudan
Arina Mikhailovna Khatsenovich, Russian Academy of Science
Research Grants (December 2019)
A Levallois refugium in Central Asia: chronology and causes of conservatism
Catherine Markham, Stony Brook University
Research Grants (December 2019)
Competition within primate social groups: Rank effects on energy expenditure