The Wenner-Gren Foundation for

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $71,000

  Michael Brown · Santa Fe, NM · 2024

  School of advanced research, santa fe, nm - to aid establishment of fellowship in anthropology in black experiences, santa fe, new mexico

• $40,000

  Nishita Trisal · 2024

  Trisal, nishita (ashoka u.) "banking on uncertainty: debt and interdependence in kashmir"

• $40,000

  Nicholas Garcia Johnson · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  Johnson, nicholas garcia (emory u.) "emergent citizenships: mapuche (indigenous) and chilean (non-indigenous) politics and belonging in peri-urban santiago, (chile)."

• $40,000

  Lowe Hunter · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Hunter, elizabeth (independent scholar) "afropean feminist methodologies: towards an ethnography of togetherness."

• $40,000

  Jamie Allison Haverkamp · Lewiston, ME · 2024

  Haverkamp, jamie (bates college) "climate coloniality: resilience, resistance and restor(y)ing in andean worlds"

• $40,000

  Aynur Kadir · 2024

  Kadir, aynur (british columbia, u. Of) "safekeeping culture: grassroots preservation as uyghur survival"

• $40,000

  Darcie Deangelo · Lowell, MA · 2024

  Deangelo, darcie (oklahoma, u of) "learning to love rats"

• $40,000

  Tracie Canada · Durham, NC · 2024

  Canada, tracie (duke u.) "tackling the everyday: race and nation in big-time college football"

• $40,000

  Nadide Ozge Serin · Walla Walla, WA · 2024

  Serin, nadide ozge (whitman college) "writing of death: ethics and politics of the death fast resistance in turkey (2000-2007)"

• $40,000

  Nazl Ozkan · 2024

  Ozkan, nazl (koc u.) "contesting secular equality: provocation narrative, press, and alevis in turkey"

• $40,000

  Minwoo Jung · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Jung, minwoo (loyola u. Chicago) "queer geopolitics: rights projects in contested asia"

• $40,000

  Samantha Fladd · Pullman, WA · 2024

  Fladd, samantha (washington state u.) "accumulating identity in trash: spatial modification and spiritual stewardship in ancestral hopi villages"

• $40,000

  Allison Enfield Caine · Laramie, WY · 2024

  Caine, allison (wyoming, u. Of) "restless ecologies: climate change and multispecies survival in the peruvian andes"

• $40,000

  Jacob Nerenberg · 2024

  Nerenberg, jacob (leibniz-zentrum moderner orient) "nerenberg, jacob (leibniz-zentrum moderner orient) "land locked: indigenous labour and citizenship on an asia-pacific frontier""

• $40,000

  Marcos Freire De Andrade Neves · 2024

  Freire de andrade neves, marcos (free u. Of berlin) not dead yet"

• $40,000

  Joseph Klein · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  Klein, joseph (california, santa cruz, u. Of) "the world for a coral: fortune and belonging on the reefs of southeast sulawesi, indonesia"

• $40,000

  Carolina Sanchez Boe · 2024

  Boe, carolina (aarhus u.) "digital detention electronic monitoring of asylum seekers in the usa"

• $40,000

  Douaa Sheet · Washington, DC · 2024

  Sheet, douaa (american u.) "the politics of dignity and the tunisian truth commission"

• $40,000

  Mohammad Hasan Ashraf · 2024

  Ashraf, mohammad (jahangirnagar u.) "labouring for global fast fashion: multi-sited ethnography of regimented production regime, garment workers life, social reproduction and health in bangladesh"

• $40,000

  Bremen Donovan · 2024

  Donovan, bremen (virginia, u. Of) "big mouth"

• $40,000

  Alice Martins Villela Pinto · 2024

  Pinto, alice (independent scholar) "the retake"

• $40,000

  Anna Ilona Roberts · 2024

  Roberts, anna (independent scholar) "can bonobo (pan paniscus) communicative complexity enable social complexity?"

• $40,000

  Emine Rezzan Karaman · 2024

  Karaman, emine rezzan (independent scholar) "getting justice for the forcibly disappeared through judicio-politics in turkey"

• $40,000

  Gaspard Renault · 2024

  Renault, gaspard (museum national d'histoire naturelle) "edges of the forest. A multi-species film anthropology."

• $35,556

  Michelle Elizabeth Young · Nashville, TN · 2024

  Young, michelle (vanderbilt u.) "beyond the horizon: pericentric complexity in the chavin phenomenon at atalla, peru"

• $35,556

  Jessie Fredlund · Astoria, NY · 2024

  Fredlund, jessie (connecticut, u. Of) "climate change and the ancestors: rain, gender, and politics in a tanzanian watershed"

• $30,086

  Pontificia Universidad Catolica De · 2024

  To support the development of a doctoral program in anthropology at pontificia u. Catolica de chile, santiago, chile - institutional development grant

• $26,966

  Lauren Alyssa Hayes · Laramie, WY · 2024

  Hayes, lauren (wyoming, u.) "walking the line: gender, communication, and the new manufacturing workplace in appalachia"

• $26,670

  Charlotte Goudge · Waltham, MA · 2024

  Goudge, charlotte (brandeis u.) "new humanist perspectives of panoptic plantationscapes in antigua"

• $25,000

  M Adityanandana · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  Adityanandana, m (cornell u.) "politics of distribution and labor in indonesias resettlement project"

• $25,000

  Michelle Jane Richards · 2024

  Richards, michelle (la trobe u.) "reconnecting taungurung water and land council to museum and archive collections: continuing knowledge exchanges"

• $25,000

  Nicole Mabry · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Mabry, nicole (california, berkeley, u. Of) "racialized landscapes and the politics of stability amid climatic collapse in louisianas northshore parishes"

• $25,000

  Giorgia Mirto · 2024

  Mirto, giorgia (columbia u.) "the political life of border death in south italy"

• $25,000

  Margaux Fisher · Irvine, CA · 2024

  Fisher, margaux (california, irvine, u. Of) "health otherwise: reframing adolescent mental health in the deep south"

• $25,000

  Michelle Kathleen Roberts · Lexington, KY · 2024

  Roberts, michelle (kentucky, u. Of) "webs of care: understanding acquired disability in rural appalachia through culture, politics, and biomedicine"

• $25,000

  Wee Yang Soh · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Soh, wee yang (chicago, u. Of) "cultural translation through idology: the making of a global korean culture"

• $25,000

  Reed Elizabeth McConnell · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Mcconnell, reed (chicago, u. Of) "imperial futures: post-apocalyptic visions, settler colonial whiteness, and environmental justice in late industrial california"

• $25,000

  Nursyazwani Binte Jamaludin · 2024

  Binte jamaludin, nursyazwani (pennsylvania, u. Of) "an ummah of many ummahs: the world-making practices of displaced rohingya"

• $25,000

  Richard S Ciolek-Torello · Anaheim, CA · 2024

  Ciolek-torello, richard (independent scholar) "uyghur cultural heritage project: ancient cities in a nomadic pastoral landscape on the mongolian steppe"

• $25,000

  Shibanee Sivanayagam · 2024

  Sivanayagam, shibanee (new york, graduate center, city u. Of) "palmyrah politics: rethinking region and the subaltern in northern sri lanka"

• $25,000

  Emrah Yildiz · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Yildiz, emrah (northwestern u.) "outsmarting sanctions: value, mobility and security between iran and turkey"

• $25,000

  Flavia Medeiros Santos · 2024

  Santos, flavia (federal u. Of santa catarina) "drug policy, autonomy and care: contributions of anti-prohibitionist feminism from an anthropological perspective"

• $25,000

  Soojin Kim · 2024

  Kim, soojin (harvard u.) "erase the trace: digital data, personhood, and the right to be forgotten in south korea"

• $25,000

  Tim Frewer · 2024

  Frewer, tim (school of field studies) "protected areas for whom? Indigenous people and rights to the forest."

• $25,000

  Emily Yates-Doerr · Corvallis, OR · 2024

  Yates-doerr, emily (oregon state u.) "nuclear stories: fallout, scientific truths, and the half-life of memory"

• $25,000

  Armand Belao Mijares · 2024

  Mijares, armand salvador (philippines, u. Of the) "looking for the motherlode: archaeological excavation of the homo luzonensis site at callao cave"

• $25,000

  Swagat Pani · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

  Pani, swagat (michigan, ann arbor, u. Of) "financial sieges and financial tunnels: a multi-sited ethnography and history of financial sanctions in the persian gulf with a focus on financial infrastructures and brokerage…

• $25,000

  Pawan Sharma · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Sharma, pawan (minnesota, minneapolis-st.paul, u. Of) "infrastructures of vision: decoding india's provincial media ecology"

• $25,000

  Ridhima Sharma · 2024

  Sharma, ridhima (toronto, u. Of)activism, work, and service in hindu nationalist networks in contemporary north india"

• $25,000

  Alaa Saad · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Saad, alaa (johns hopkins u.) "prompting the past, crafting the present: replication technologies and the renarration of egyptian histories"

• $25,000

  Tathagatan Ravindran · 2024

  Ravindran, tathagatan (independent scholar) "towards a new common sense? Narratives of inequality in colombian insurgent geographies"

• $25,000

  Harleen Kaur Bal · Davis, CA · 2024

  Bal, harleen (california, davis, u. Of) "contestations of quotidian work-life among californias punjabi working families within contemporary u.s. Capitalism"

• $25,000

  Jiwon Kim · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Kim, jiwon (johns hopkins u.) "banking on waste: financialization and householding in indonesia"

• $25,000

  Guillermina Esposito · 2024

  Esposito, guillermina (cordoba, national u. Of) "the national school project and the barbarization of andean indigenous population in argentina (1900-1930)"

• $25,000

  Yida Jiao · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Jiao, yida (johns hopkins u.) "the frontier of technocratic capitalism: chinese agricultural entrepreneurs in uzbekistan"

• $25,000

  Leonardo Nascimento Da Silva · 2024

  Da silva, leonardo (museu nacional, rio de janeiro) "retaking the image: poetics and politics of an indigenous visual archeology"

• $25,000

  Brittany Britt Dawson · San Diego, CA · 2024

  Dawson, brittany (britt) (california, berkeley, u. Of) "somos musulmanes: living islam at the mexico-u.s. Border"

• $25,000

  Liang Wu · Washington, DC · 2024

  Wu, liang (independent scholar) "anthropology of shipping decarbonization: politics, power, and policy of 'the 4th propulsion revolution'"

• $25,000

  Bri Matusovsky · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Matusovsky, bri (california, san francisco, u. Of) "the monkey problem of st. Kitts: an exploration of problematization in multi-species ethnography"

• $25,000

  Mallory Jordan Peters · Binghamton, NY · 2024

  Peters, mallory (new york, binghamton, state u. Of) "the evolutionary impacts of stress on bone metabolism in women"

• $25,000

  Chilton Lee Tippin · Longmont, CO · 2024

  Tippin, chilton (colorado, boulder, u. Of) "defending multiple waters: river-based resistances and toxic transfusions in the late-industrial watershed of the rio grande/bravo"

• $25,000

  James Garretson Keppeler · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

  Keppeler, james (kentucky, u. Of) "unearthing mindanao: archaeological insights into mindanao's role in early philippine agriculture"

• $25,000

  Lise Woensdregt · 2024

  Woensdregt, lise (vu u. Amsterdam) "imarisha hustle: designing economic pathways for financially vulnerable queer men in nairobi, kenya"

• $25,000

  David Raymond Carey Jr · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Carey jr., david (loyola u. Maryland) "pandemic cycles: science, healing, and indigenous people in postcolonial guatemala"

• $25,000

  Alexandra Lavrillier · 2024

  Lavrillier, alexandra (paris-saclay, u. (versailles)) "an arctic indigenous knowledge system and anthropological observation of changes in climate, biodiversity, and society"

• $25,000

  Alexander David Symons · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  Symons, alexander (cornell u.) "walking walls: herds, enclosures and land claims in the late bronze age south caucasus."

• $25,000

  Katleho Kano Shoro · 2024

  Shoro, katleho (pennsylvania, u. Of) "litema and bambosle: grasping at a beyond-colonial african aesthetic philosophy through women's creative practices and embodied knowledges"

• $25,000

  Ashwin Subramanian · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Subramanian, ashwin (harvard u.) "ripple effects: agrarian change, caste and kinship in central india"

• $25,000

  Marygrace Trifilio · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Trifilio, marygrace (minnesota, minneapolis-st.paul, u. Of) "homebound: the carcerality of eldercare for queer seniors in brooklyn ny"

• $25,000

  Andres Ignacio Robledo · 2024

  Robledo, andres (institut catala de paleoecologia humana i evolucion social (iphes)3/31/2026) "human and fire adaptations during holocene in semi-arids mountain landscapes (argentina)"

• $25,000

  Craig Stevens · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Stevens, craig (northwestern u.) "the love of liberty met us here: archaeology as a tool of restoration and reclamation"

• $25,000

  Julian Aron Ross · Ridgewood, NY · 2024

  Ross, julian (new york, graduate center, city u. Of) "germany's new jewish question: race, secularism, and religious difference in jewish welfare"

• $25,000

  Evans Akangyelewon Atuick · Buffalo, NY · 2024

  Atuick, evans (new york, buffalo, state u. Of) "witchcraft camps and the body politics of humanitarian governance in northern ghana"

• $25,000

  Karl Lyn · Winchester, CA · 2024

  Lyn, karl (massachusetts, amherst, u. Of) "a new generation: the everyday political lives of black young adults in south central los angeles"

• $25,000

  Nadia Naomi Mbonde · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Mbonde, nadia (new york u.) "black maternal mental health: exploring lived experience narratives under conditions of u.s. Bio-psychiatry"

• $25,000

  Kristi Rhead · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024

  Rhead, kristi (michigan, ann arbor, u. Of) "radio reunion: freedom, identity, and sovereignty in the auditory archive"

• $25,000

  Kartik Maini · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Maini, kartik (chicago, u. Of) "between krishna and muhammad: becoming 'pranami' at the threshold of religion"

• $25,000

  Katherine Eleanor White · San Diego, CA · 2024

  White, katherine (california, san diego, u. Of) "anatomy and the search for natural man in the 16th-century iberian world"

• $25,000

  Mariana Luiza Fiocco Machini · 2024

  Machini, mariana (sao paulo, u. Of) "landscapes-in-disaster in the context of the collapse of the fundao dam (mariana - mg)"

• $25,000

  Matthew Schneider · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Schneider, matthew (california, los angeles, u. Of) "signs of change and the business of climate transition"

• $25,000

  Chazelle Elizabeth Rhoden · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Rhoden, chazelle (columbia u.) "afro-religious animations: spirit, space and climate-driven conservation in brazil"

• $25,000

  Davina Ruth Two Bears · Tempe, AZ · 2024

  Two bears, davina (arizona state, u of) "old leupp indian boarding school and nikkei isolation center community-accountable archaeological partnership"

• $25,000

  Monika Agnieszka Jankowska · 2024

  Jankowska, monika (rice u.) "robot lawyers in china: who produces and disseminates legal knowledge in the era of generative ai?"

• $25,000

  Nia Whitmal · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  Whitmal, nia (cornell u.) "land and luck: home and belonging among harlem's black property owners"

• $25,000

  Anandi Gandhi · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  Gandhi, anandi (california, santa cruz, u. Of) "coexistent futures: asian elephant-farmer relations in a changing world"

• $25,000

  Chrislyn Laurie Laurore · Riviera Beach, FL · 2024

  Laurore, chrislyn laurie (pennsylvania, u. Of) ""the love of liberty brought us here": black indigeneity, slave heritage, and the politics of return"

• $25,000

  Iman Ali · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  Ali, iman (cornell u.) "armed in the name of peace: everyday militant peacekeeping in south lebanon"

• $25,000

  Jaleel Plummer · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Plummer, jaleel (california, berkeley, u. Of) "between affliction & liberation: obeah, schizophrenia, & the struggles of black postcolonial subjectivity"

• $25,000

  Elena Judith Peeples · Ewing, NJ · 2024

  Peeples, elena (columbia teachers college) "trenton makes: urban planning and the production of expertise"

• $25,000

  Amir Khorasani Ejbarkolaei · 2024

  Khorasani ejbarkolae, amir (bremen, u. Of) "hydraulic legacies: co-evolution of oil, water, and labor in the middle east's pioneering oil complex of mahshahr and abadan"

• $25,000

  Elizabeth Anne McCague · Columbia, MD · 2024

  Mccague, elizabeth (maryland, college park, u. Of) "equestrian labor, entangled lives: a longitudinal study of racial capitalism in the mid-atlantic horse industry"

• $25,000

  Emily Frances Bailey · Burlington, NC · 2024

  Bailey, emily (columbia teachers college) ""this is our lives": co-production of autistic futures in a french cafe"

• $25,000

  Joseph Rafael Kaplan Weinger · Skokie, IL · 2024

  Weinger, joseph (california, los angeles, u. Of) "colonial settlement, splintered sovereignty, and delegation of the monopoly on legitimate violence"

• $25,000

  Sana Naeem · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  Naeem, sana (harvard u.) ""the law is like a camel's intestines": enduring divorce in peshawar's family courts"

• $25,000

  Viviana Huiliir · Boulder, CO · 2024

  Huiliir, viviana (colorado, boulder, u. Of) ""green borders: protected areas and mapuche mobilities in the southern andes in wallmapu""

• $24,999

  Jacqueline Louise Hazen · Washington, DC · 2024

  Hazen, jacqueline (smithsonian inst., washington, dc) "sea of stories: re-connecting oceanic biocultural collections from the 'south seas expedition' (1899-1900)"

• $24,998

  Kyle Bikowski · Menasha, WI · 2024

  Bikowski, kyle (iowa, u. Of) ""gamer is what i do, gaymer is who i am": identity work, joy, and community building among mexican gaymers"

• $24,997

  Alba Menendez Pereda · Somerville, MA · 2024

  Menendez pereda, alba (california, los angeles, u. Of) "making and experiencing sacredness: the architecture and ephemerality of the coricancha"

• $24,995

  Rinku Ashok Kumar · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  Ashok kumar, rinku (arizona, u. Of) "making the 'indian microbiome': emergent vernaculars of biotech development, circulation, and use in bengaluru"

• $24,992

  Jolen a Martinez · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Martinez, jolen (chicago, u. Of) "prophecy and prediction: black religion, speculative finance, and racial policing in west chicago"