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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.

9 grants matching “contest” · $222,520

• $40,000

  Minwoo Jung · Chicago, IL · 2024

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

• $40,000

  Nazl Ozkan · 2024

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

• $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"

• $17,940

  Bruna Potechi · 2024

  Potechi, bruna (federal u. Of sao carlos) "contesting maternity: an ethnography of documents and laws in the brazilian chamber of deputies"

• $9,960

  Kieran Way · 2024

  Way, kieran (toronto, u. Of) "life, concepts, and politics: decolonization or [and] reconciliation in a contested city"

• $25,000

  Lee Gensler · Ridgewood, NY · 2023

  Gensler, lee (new york, graduate center, city u. Of) "leftbook and contested visions of the good: social media platform governance, political subjectivity, and new moral traditions"

• $19,300

  Kristin McFadden · Columbia, SC · 2023

  Mcfadden, kristin (stanford u.) "contested land: black land dispossession and citizenship in the american south"

• $40,000

  Elizabeth Geglia · Washington, DC · 2022

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

• $5,320

  Balazs Andras Gosztonyi · 2022

  Valuable defaults: collecting contested debts in post-socialist hungary

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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