About
The Wenner-Gren Foundation is a private foundation established in 1941, committed to playing a leadership role in anthropology. The Foundation helps anthropologists advance anthropological knowledge, build sustainable careers, and amplify the impact of anthropology within the wider world. It provides grants and fellowships, supports academic journals including Current Anthropology and Transforming Anthropology, hosts symposia and seminars, and runs various community initiatives to support the global anthropology community.
Funding Opportunities
Historical Archives Program
The Historical Archives Program encourages the preservation of unpublished personal research materials considered of value to the history of anthropology. Grants are offered to assist senior scholars (or their heirs) with the expense of preparing and transferring these materials for archival deposit. Applicants must show evidence that arrangements have been made with an appropriate repository. The program supports the foundation's mission to advance anthropological knowledge, amplify its impact, foster inclusivity, and address the precarity of anthropology as a career and field of study. The archival materials should have import in research on the history of anthropology, and the applicant's plan to make the materials publicly accessible should be both feasible and appropriate. Note: The Historical Archives Program has taken a temporary hiatus and is no longer accepting applications for funding at this time.
Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early career scholars in completing ethnographic film, video, audio, or other public media projects based on anthropological research they have already completed. Early career scholars frequently lack the time and resources needed to tell anthropological stories in registers other than print. Through this program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation supports projects that will amplify the impact of anthropology through filmmaking, audio production, and other creative multimodal work. The fellowship provides up to $40,000 for a 9-month stipend toward the completion of projects in the final, post-production stages. The Foundation encourages the use of novel approaches to anthropological communication to reach new audiences and has no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. Applicants should have proven expertise and a commitment to innovation in the medium in which they work. This fellowship supports a wide range of projects, from podcasts and video shorts to experimental films, audio ethnographies, and tactile performances, to more classically crafted documentary works. The Foundation encourages new solutions to the challenge of ethically representing diverse communities, including promoting greater involvement of communities in the conception, production and/or distribution of audio/visual projects. The Foundation awards a maximum of four Fejos fellowships annually.
Conference and Workshop Grant
This grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research. Conferences that are supported are public events directed at large audiences of anthropologists, prioritizing scholarly gatherings that bring together members of large, international anthropological organizations. Workshops that are supported are closed meetings focused on pressing topics in anthropology, where small groups of scholars gather for several days to work intensively on particular themes. The Foundation's aim is to help organizers make these conferences and workshops more inclusive and accessible by covering costs for scholars who might not otherwise be able to attend. For conferences, organizers should use the majority of funds to cover the expenses of international scholars who are making presentations or contributing critically. For workshops, grants support intimate, small-scale meetings where participants share their work or act as discussants, with an expectation of an afterlife in the form of publications or other lasting contributions to the field.
Engaged Research Grant
The Engaged Research Grant supports longstanding research partnerships that empower those who have historically been the subjects of anthropological research, rather than researchers themselves. Designed in alliance with individuals who have borne the impact of marginalization, these partnerships bring together scholars and their interlocutors in an effort to expand anthropological knowledge, combat inequality, and help communities flourish. The program supports projects that will make a significant contribution to anthropological conversations through collaboration and engagement. Anthropological research involves forging ethical relationships. Researchers must acknowledge the contributions of interlocutors and compensate them appropriately for their labor and time. Projects funded by Engaged Research Grants go even further. Not only are interlocutors participants in the research, but they have an active role in determining the problems explored. This grant program targets projects, growing out of a scholar's established relationship with a community, that show greater potential when undertaken as a partnership, beginning with the formulation of research questions and extending to data gathering, skill sharing, scholarly communication, and public mobilization. Engaged research occurs in a broad range of settings, including communities, courtrooms, government offices, and laboratories. It results in findings that are meaningful and potentially transformative for research participants and others with a stake in the collaboration. Through this program, the Foundation seeks to demonstrate how engagement can foster innovation and further anthropological knowledge. This program is open to applicants with PhDs in anthropology and related fields. Individuals of all nationalities are eligible to apply, including doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, and independent scholars.
Post-PhD Research Grant
The Post-PhD Research Grant funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. The Foundation's goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas. Qualified scholars of any nationality or institutional affiliation who hold a doctoral degree in anthropology or a related field at the time they apply are eligible, including independent scholars and senior scholars. The maximum award is $25,000, and grants are nonrenewable. There is no limit to the duration of the grant, and applicants may request funding to cover distinct research phases if this is part of the research design.
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
The Wenner-Gren Foundation awards Dissertation Fieldwork Grants to fund doctoral or thesis research that advances anthropological knowledge. The Foundation's goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas. The maximum grant award is $25,000 and grants are nonrenewable. There is no limit to the duration of the grant, and applicants may request funding to cover distinct research phases (for example, two summers) if this is part of the research design. Reviewers assess the quality of the proposed research, its potential contribution to anthropological knowledge, and its adherence to the principles articulated in the Foundation's mission, including a commitment to fostering an inclusive vision of anthropology.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 10
- Active Now
- 6
- Source Domain
- wennergren.org
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