About Our Grantees

Each year, the Wenner-Gren Foundation awards about $7 million in grants and fellowships to support anthropology worldwide. Explore a sample of grantee projects spanning subfields and modes—from individual research to conferences to engaged, community-based work.

Grantee Spotlight

A photo of a smiling woman (Lei Change), with straight shoulder length hair wearing a sleeveless top, standing indoors against a flat plain background.

Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Conservation in Practice:

Wild Elephants, Rural Lives, and Infrastructure in Xishuangbanna, China

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Fellowship Profiles

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Hunt

Landscapes of Suffering and Survival: Migration through the Darién Gap

Fejos

Small Water: Dreams and Divination in South Africa

Hunt

Sinking the City: Engineering and the Government of Disaster in the Mexican Metropolis

A photo portrait of a smiling woman, (Morenike Samuel), with long straight hair resting on her left shoulder. She's wearing a paisley top, standing outside on a sunny walkway with hedges visible in the background.

Wadsworth

To Support Training in Biocultural Medical Anthropology

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