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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

2 grants matching “collapse” · $50,000

• $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

  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"

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• Michael Brown3 grants · $207,190
• David Christopher Thompson2 grants · $61,450
• Penina Emanuel Kadalida3 grants · $57,485
• Senanta Fanidh Sanogo3 grants · $57,485
• David Mensah3 grants · $57,445
• Cindy Mansour3 grants · $57,122
• David Felipe Rodriguez Mora3 grants · $56,798
• Reda Mohamed Merida3 grants · $56,560
• Yananiso Chinovava Maposa3 grants · $47,300
• Daniel Rodriguez Osorio2 grants · $44,996

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 951 grants.

• $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

• $71,000

  Michael Brown · Sante Fe, NM · 2022

  To aid establishment of fellowship in anthropology in black experiences, santa fe, new mexico

• $65,190

  Michael Brown · Santa Fe, NM · 2023

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

• $40,000

  Alice Martins Villela Pinto · 2024

  Pinto, alice (independent scholar) "the retake"

• $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

  Anna Ilona Roberts · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Aynur Kadir · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Bremen Donovan · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Carolina Sanchez Boe · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Darcie Deangelo · Lowell, MA · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Douaa Sheet · Washington, DC · 2024

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

• $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."

• $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

  Jamie Allison Haverkamp · Lewiston, ME · 2024

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

• $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

  Lowe Hunter · Oakland, CA · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Marcos Freire De Andrade Neves · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Minwoo Jung · Chicago, IL · 2024

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

• $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

  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

  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

  Nishita Trisal · 2024

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

• $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

  Tracie Canada · Durham, NC · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Andrea Silva-Caballero · 2023

  Silva-caballero, andrea (independent scholar) "adolescent sleep development and variability in non-industrial environments: patterning, efficiency and cultural representations"

• $40,000

  Catalina Tesar · 2023

  Tesar, catalina (bucharest, u. Of) "time of marriage. Gender, wealth and reproduction among cortorari transylvanian roma"

• $40,000

  Charles H P Zuckerman · Shelburne, VT · 2023

  Zuckerman, charles (sydney, u. Of) "what the action is: gambling and moral categories in late-socialist laos"

• $40,000

  Christine Janney · Elmhurst, IL · 2023

  Janney, christine (institution not listed) "searching for nora (working title)"

• $40,000

  Cristina Teixeira Marins · 2023

  Marins, cristina (estadual do rio de janeiro, u.) "hyperconnected and hoping for the best: alternative work, digital platforms, and social change in brazil"

• $40,000

  Deblina Dey · 2023

  Dey, deblina (o.p. Jindal global u.) "ageing, law, and the politics of care in india"

• $40,000

  Elana Faye Resnick · Goleta, CA · 2023

  Resnick, elana (california, santa barbara, u. Of) "refusing sustainability: life beyond waste at the edges of europe"

• $40,000

  Fabien Raymond-Yves Clouette · 2023

  Clouette, fabien (paris 10-nanterre, u. Of) "atalaya whale fire"

• $40,000

  Geronimo Barrera De La Torre · 2023

  Barrera de la torre, geronimo (texas, austin, u. Of) "xa lyu k?yaq: un mundo de cerros (world of mountains)"

• $40,000

  Hayal Akarsu Karpuzcu · 2023

  Akarsu karpuzcu, hayal (utrecht, u of) "force experts: afterlives of police reforms in turkey"

• $40,000

  Jing Xu · Seattle, WA · 2023

  Xu, jing (washington, u. Of) "unruly children: moral development in a taiwanese village (1958-1960)"

• $40,000

  Keitlyn Alcantara · Bloomington, IN · 2023

  Alcantara, keitlyn (indiana u., bloomington) "recipes of resistance: an archaeology of the past and present"

• $40,000

  Lucas Marques · 2023

  Marques, lucas (independent scholar) "on ogun's railroad"

• $40,000

  Nicholas Lawrence Caverly · Amherst, MA · 2023

  Caverly, nicholas (massachusetts, amherst, u. Of) "demolishing detroit: how structural racism takes place"

• $40,000

  Olivia Casagrande · 2023

  Casagrande, olivia (sheffield, u. Of) "spaces of interconnection and saturation. Indigenous storytelling, world-making and place."

• $40,000

  Paige Madison · Bozeman, MT · 2023

  Madison, paige (independent scholar) "hobbits and human origins: how tiny fossils raised big questions about who we are"

• $40,000

  Takami Shiratori Delisle · Lexington, KY · 2023

  Delisle, takami (independent scholar) "troubling (white) anthropology: stories from racially minoritized anthropologists"

• $40,000

  Yasmin Moll · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

  Moll, yasmin (michigan, ann arbor, u. Of) "'nubia is a place inside us': collective memory, salvage anthropology, and indigenous activism in egypt"

• $40,000

  Aditi Saraf · 2022

  Frontier signatures: trade, sovereignty and political economy in kashmir

• $40,000

  Amy Elizabeth Clark · Norman, OK · 2022

  At home in the paleolithic: the making of the home and its archaeological signatures

• $40,000

  Camilo Sanz · Norman, OK · 2022

  Oncopolitics of exhaustion: cancer, biomedical practices and health insurance businesses in neoliberal colombia

• $40,000

  Carla Hernandez Garavito · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

  Reimagining colonialism: a local history of community and empire in the peruvian andes between the 15th and 18th centuries

• $40,000

  Cassandra Beth Koontz Scaffidi · Mariposa, CA · 2022

  Immigration and mobility in the age of ancient andean empires: insights from isotope biogeochemistry and landscape bioarchaeology

• $40,000

  Christien Philmarc Tompkins · New York City, NY · 2022

  Reconstructing race: the experimental labor of new orleans education reform

• $40,000

  Daniel White · 2022

  Technically well: contemplative technologies and the politics of human-centered ai in japan

• $40,000

  Darlene Elizabeth Dubuisson · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

  Reclaiming haiti's futures: returned intellectuals, placemaking, and radical imagination

• $40,000

  David Christopher Thompson · 2022

  Resocialize to conquer the future: incarceration and reform in rio de janeiro

• $40,000

  Elizabeth Geglia · Washington, DC · 2022

  Homeland, colony, state, or company? Contesting private city development in honduras

• $40,000

  Eva Luksaite · 2022

  The intimate state: sterilisation in rural north india

• $40,000

  Fatima Mojaddedi · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  Shelter for the night: language and discontent in afghanistan

• $40,000

  Gina Jae · New York, NY · 2022

  National commitments and private sentiments: the anticipatory politics of sickle cell disease in the us and france

• $40,000

  Hosna Sheikholeslami · Granville, OH · 2022

  Translating imaginaries: the infrastructure and politics of publishing western theory in iran

• $40,000

  Laura Kathryn McClellan · Mississippi State, MS · 2022

  If we were animals: human-animal care and comparison in jordan

• $40,000

  Leah Lowthorp · Eugene, OR · 2022

  Deep cosmopolitanism: kutiyattam, dynamic tradition, and globalizing heritage in kerala, india

• $40,000

  Moyukh Chatterjee · Middlebury, VT · 2022

  Recomposing violence: the limits of exposure and anti-muslim politics in india

• $40,000

  Noman Baig · 2022

  Cultures of greed: commerce and cosmology in pakistan

• $40,000

  Shreya P Subramani · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Carcerality in transition: racializing progressive governance in new orleans

• $40,000

  Spensy Kmitta Pimentel · 2022

  Remembering the 2nd of july ? Afro-indigenous relations as an anticolonial strategy in southern bahia

• $40,000

  Utpal Niranjan Sandesara · Tustin, CA · 2022

  She is not ours: sex selection and the ambivalence of care in western india

• $40,000

  Veysel Firat Bozcali · 2022

  Borders unenforced: kurdish smuggling economies and techno-legal politics in turkey

• $40,000

  Yasemin Ipek · Centreville, VA · 2022

  Crisiswork: activism, class-making, and bounded futures in lebanon

• $40,000

  Yichen Rao · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

  Financial cyborgs: money, desire, and machinic lives in digital china

• $40,000

  Zeynep Oguz · 2022

  Unsettling grounds: indeterminate oil, state power, and earth politics in turkey

• $36,430

  Kristina Linda Baines · Sunnyside, NY · 2022

  Aid new york academy of sciences anthropology program section network and program development, 2021-2023 initiatives grant, renewal ofcontinuing program

• $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"

• $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

  Christine Sargent · Denver, CO · 2023

  Sargent, christine (colorado, denver, u. Of) "kinship futures: motherhood and the making of down syndrome in urban jordan"

• $35,556

  Kali Rubaii · West Lafayette, IN · 2022

  Counter-resurgency: iraqs ecologies of coercion

• $35,552

  Alessandro Angelini · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  Angelini, alessandro (johns hopkins u.) "model favela: miniature life in rio de janeiro"

• $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

• $28,140

  William Randall Haas · Laramie, WY · 2023

  Haas, william (wyoming, u. Of ) "the andean ascent: high-altitude forager archaeology in south america"

• $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"

• $26,667

  Samantha Maurer Fox · Glen Rock, NJ · 2023

  Fox, samantha (lehigh u.) "the afterlife of utopia: urban renewal in germany's model socialist city"

• $26,667

  Annick Thomassin · 2022

  Preparation of manuscript for publication of thesis:this part of the sea belongs to us: politics, sea rights and fisheries co-management in the torres strait

• $26,664

  Columba Gonzalez-Duarte · 2022

  Tied mobilities: an ethnography of human-butterfly migration in north america

• $26,664

  Ruth Elizabeth Goldstein · Durham, NC · 2022

  Trafficking in femininity: nature, culture, and gender along the interoceanic highway

• $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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Ashwin Subramanian · Cambridge, MA · 2024

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

• $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

  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

  Chazelle Elizabeth Rhoden · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

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

• $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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Elena Judith Peeples · Ewing, NJ · 2024

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

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