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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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Madeleine Kelly, University of Chicago

Research Grants (May 2024)

A multi-proxy, Bayesian approach for modeling woody cover in African environments: Implications for hominin paleoecology

Margaret Furtner, Louisiana State University

Research Grants (May 2024)

Cradle of Humankind fossil site prediction: A machine learning approach

Marion Prevost, Hebrew University

Research Grants (May 2024)

Reassessment of lithic technological behaviors at the Middle Paleolithic Nahr Ibrahim site (Lebanon).

Nicole Thompson Gonzalez, The Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara

Primate Research Fund (May 2024)

Behavioral ecology and demography of the blue monkeys of Kakamega, Forest

Peiqi Zhang, University of Bordeaux

Research Grants (May 2024)

Unraveling East Asian hominin technological evolution: A raw material perspective

Rene Bobe, Gorongosa Restoration Project

Research Grants (May 2024)

Eastern Africa’s coastal forests and hominin origins

Salmah Jombela, Makerere University

Baldwin Fellowship (May 2024)

Second Year Baldwin Support

Sarah Wurz, University of the Witwatersrand

Research Grants (May 2024)

New frontiers in early modern human origins research at Klasies River Main site

Siavash Samei, Centre College

Research Grants (May 2024)

Early human adaptations in the Armenian Highlands: An interdisciplinary investigation of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Aghitu-3 Cave, Armenia

Stephen Magohe, University of Calgary

Francis H. Brown African Scholarship (May 2024)

Investigating early Homo habitat through geoscience at Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania

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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