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(Funding for the current application season is limited to projects starting between January 1 and June 30, 2025.)


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STOP NOW. If you are unsure how "closely related" your degree or proposal is to the anthropological discipline, please review the "General Criteria for Evaluation" on our website.
Thanks so much for applying to Wenner-Gren. Please help us do a better job of selecting reviewers for your project by providing us with some information about yourself and your research interests. We’ll also be asking you for some confidential demographic information. This section, which is voluntary, will help us in our efforts to support anthropologists from diverse backgrounds and scholarly traditions. 

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Collaborators
Academic Collaborators. These are individuals responsible for carrying out a substantial portion of your proposed project.  They may have taken part in designing the project.  You may have plans to include them as co-authors when you write up the results of their work.  You may be working in partnership with another anthropologist, for instance, who is serving as your project’s co-principal investigator. 





















Personnel
Academic personnel. These are individuals responsible for carrying out crucial, yet limited portions of your proposed project.  You may be calling on the aid of an expert in a research approach or methodology that is key to your project's success.  Here, you should also list local research assistants working under your direction and others who may be helping with aspects of their research.

























Funding and Grants

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Coding
Please help us identify your project by subfield and research area.




Please indicate in your response to Project Description Question 5 how you or the museum have consulted tribes with a possible relationship to these remains or items and received their consent specifically for the proposed project.




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Longform Questions

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Please upload your (bibliography, Plan A and Plan B budgets) here as PDFs with an individual file size maximum of 25 MB.

We have transitioned to double anonymous reviewing for some of our programs. Be sure not to include your name or any other identifying information on these documents.
Budget - Plan A (for "Best Case" Scenario)
A Wenner-Gren Application Budget Form must be completed as part of the official application. Download the "Project Budget Plan A form" to fill out, save and print to PDF format, then upload to complete this task.

Please note: the total amount of your request for your Plan A and B budgets must be the same. 

Budget - Plan B (for "Worst Case" Scenario)
A Wenner-Gren Application Budget Form must be completed as part of the official application. Download the "Project Budget Plan B formto fill out, save and print to PDF format, then upload to complete this task.

Please note: the total amount of your request for your Plan A and B budgets must be the same. 

Project bibliography
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In an effort to promote greater equity in funding, we would like to collect some confidential demographic information about you. We will not be sharing your name, your institution, or any of these additional details with our reviewers. We will remove any identifiers and analyze this data in the aggregate. This section of the application is entirely optional. Your answers to these questions will have no bearing on the success of your application.

















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