Wenner-Gren Foundation Supporting Anthropology Worldwide
The Wenner-Gren Foundation is committed to playing a leadership role in anthropology. We help anthropologists advance anthropological knowledge, build sustainable careers, and amplify the impact of anthropology within the wider world.
We support anthropology worldwide through grants and fellowships for research, writing, convenings, media production, capacity building, and public engagement.
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Current Anthropology
In 1959, the Foundation created Current Anthropology as an editorially independent forum where anthropologists from around the world could share their work. Through articles, commentaries, photo-essays, interviews, and reviews, Current Anthropology, which is published by the University of Chicago Press, provides a peer-reviewed venue for vibrant and inclusive conversations in anthropology.
Symposium Series
Since the 1950s, the Foundation has convened Wenner-Gren Symposia as intensive research-centered gatherings on questions of broad importance to anthropology. Bringing together invited scholars from across the discipline and beyond, the symposia foster conversation, debate, and collaboration that open new directions for anthropological thinking. Papers from the symposia are published as open-access supplements to Current Anthropology.
Transforming Anthropology
Launched in 1990, Transforming Anthropology is the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists. The journal publishes rigorous, transformative scholarship on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other forms of social difference and inequality. Supported through a partnership with the Wenner-Gren Foundation and published by the University of Chicago Press, Transforming Anthropology is expanding its reach as a vital voice in global anthropology.
Forums: Essays on the Future of Anthropology
SAPIENS
Between 2015 and 2025, the Foundation published SAPIENS, a digital magazine about everything human, told through the stories of anthropologists. The website remains free and open as a living archive—featuring 1,500 essays, videos, podcasts, poems, teaching resources, writing trainings, and much more.
