2026–2027 APS Grants and Fellowships

Since 1933 the American Philosophical Society has awarded research grants to more than 15,000 scholars and encourages all eligible candidates to apply for our grants and fellowships.

Animal Behavior

Animal Behavior, 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Daniel A. Gutierrez, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Florida State University
From Loners to Partners: Investigating the Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Sociality During Courtship Behavior in Colombian Manakins (Pipridae)

Danny Zapata, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Florida
Linking Association Strength and Heterospecific Territorial Behavior in Amazonian Flocks
 

Anthropology

Anthropology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Christopher M. Annear, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Big Brother, Big Man: Impacts of Foreign Investment on Food, Energy, and Sense of Connection in Zambia

Timilehin Olubayo Ayelagbe, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Resilient Boundaries: Sustainability Within the Udo Moat Nigeria Amidst Changing Environmental and Sociopolitical Systems

Marc David, Franklin Research Grant 2026, St. Olaf College
France's Linguistic Diplomacy in Louisiana: Influencing Americans and Forming French Citizens in the United States

Mridula Garg, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Irvine
Designing Psycho-Affective Environments: Architecture Practice in Chandigarh, India

Christina Gonzalez, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of South Carolina
Following Signs of Indigenous Puerto Rican Life Between 17021803 in Spain's General Archive of the Indies

Muhammd Aqiil Gopee, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Chicago
Testing Stratigraphy and Trade Assemblages at the Early Islamic Port of Al Uqayr (Eastern Arabia, c. 7001000 CE)

Isaac Joshua Gutierrez, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Vanderbilt University
The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Regional Interaction: A Bioarchaeological Study of Virú Polity Expansion in the Early Intermediate Period (150 BCE-650 CE) Site of Pampa La Cruz, Moche Valley, Peru

Thomas Hart, Franklin Research Grant 2026, New Mexico State University
Recreating Late Classic Maya Gardens During the Collapse of La Milpa, Belize

Esteban Moises Herrera Parra, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Brown University    
Culinary Traces and Sensory Echoes: A Paleoethnobotany Study of Multisensory Experiences of Classic (CE 300800) Maya Foodways in the Central Usumacinta Region in Mexico

Kathleen S. Hunter, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Texas A&M University
A Small-Bodied, Nocturnal Primate's Fight Against Climate Change in Indonesia

Dorian Juric, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Indiana University    
How Did South Slavic Singers Learn Epic Geographies?

Jordan Kobylt, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Tulane University    
Urban Densification at the Ancient Maya Center of Calakmul (400 BC850 AD), Campeche, Mexico

Jonathan Larson, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Grinnell College    
The Ambiguity of Inclusion: The Power and Limits of a Diversity Framework in the European Union

Haya Mortada, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Rutgers University, New Brunswick    
Return Migrants' Investment Practices in the Collapsing Landscape of Tripoli, Lebanon

Kirsten Nafziger, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Pennsylvania State University    
Reconstructing Paleoclimate Using Bald Cypress Oxygen Isotopes: Aligning Environmental and Cultural Change Along the U.S. Georgia Coast

Sreemoyee Paul, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Rutgers University, New Brunswick    
Exploring the Reconfiguration of Dalit Funerary Rituals Under Caste Exclusion, Hindu Nationalism, and Urban Land Precarity in West Bengal, India

Miarisoa L. Ramilison, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Rutgers University, New Brunswick   
Viral Pathogens Prevalence and Transmission Among Threatened Lemurs and Other Mammals in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Carole Reynaud Paligot, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne    
History of the Notion of Race From the 1940s 1970s in France, Great Britain, and the United States

Joshua Robinson, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Boston University    
Diets and Habitats of Co-Existing Australopithecus and Homo at Ledi-Geraru (~ 2.82.6 Ma), Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia

FNU Sadam Hussain, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Syracuse University    
In the Wake of Silence: Sound, Ethics, and Everyday Politics in Kashmir, 1990 to the Present

Akiko Takeyama, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Kansas    
Involuntary Consent in Sexual Violence: Law, Affect, and Gender in Japan and the United States

Sylvia N. Wemanya, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Rice University    
Kansyore Foodways: A Social Archaeological Study of Fisher-Foragers in the Victoria Basin During the Holocene

Anqi Yan, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Duke University    
Following Jadeite: Protection and Value in the Sino-Myanmar Jadeite Extraction Economy
 

Archaeology

Archaeology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Sara K. Becker, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of California, Riverside
Archaeology Meets Hollywood: Using Skeletal Indicators and Computerized Motion Capture to Reconstruct Labor Practices in Ancient China

Anna Belza, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Cincinnati
Mycenaean Households at Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece

Asa Cameron, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Pennsylvania State University
Growth at the Margins: Feeding Empire on the Mongolian Steppe

Christina M. Carolus, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Pennsylvania State University
Vertical Archipelagos of Prehistoric Highland Inner Asia: Exploring Integrative Agropastoral Landscapes and Long-Term Socioecodynamics at Kyzyk Unkur-1, Kyrgyzstan

MinJoo Choi, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Tulane University
Understanding the Regeneration of Huarás Societies (400 BCE100 CE) After the Chavín Collapse in Conchucos, Ancash, Peru

Alex Claman, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
An Archaeological Artemis: Material Patterns of Cult Practice

Julia Kate Clark, Franklin Research Grant 2026, NOMAD Science Mongolia Inc.
Please Help Us: Salvage Archaeology Moves to Bayanzurkh, Northern Mongolia

Sheira Cohen, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peopling the Emptyscapes of Central Italy

Nicole Constantine, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Stanford University
A Maritime Archaeology of Ships, Sailors, and Exchange in Hellenistic Caria, Southwest Turkey

Ying Cui, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mountaineers in the Making: Last Interglacial Behavioral Strategies in Highland Lesotho

Jordan E. Davis, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Texas, Austin
An Archaeological Investigation of Post-Emancipation Transformations in Austin, Texas

Claire Ebert, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Pittsburgh
Tracing Mobility and Coastal Adaptation in Preclassic Maya Communities: Multi-Isotopic Analysis of Burials From Cerro Maya, Belize

Hanna Erftenbeck, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Grinnell College
Zeighan Ancient Landscapes

Luis A. Flores Blanco, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Arizona State University
Early High-Altitude Agriculture in the Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru: Integrating Remote Sensing and Laboratory Analysis

Miguel Omar Garcia Mollindo, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Tulane University
Investigating an Olmec Formal Architectural Complex at the Site of La Duda in the Tonalá River Basin, Mexico

Mark D. Hammond, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Case Western Reserve University
The Metamorphosis of Faith in Philia, Thessaly: The Sanctuary of Itonia Athina From Polytheism to Christianity

Emily C. Kracht, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Santa Barbara
From Mud Into Immortality: A Geoarchaeological Survey of Puerto Rico to Evaluate Sociopolitical Change in the Late Ceramic Age (c. AD 8001200)

Abdikadir G. Kurewa, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Florida
Assembling Connections: An Ethnoarchaeology of Ostrich Eggshell Bead Production, Use, and Meaning Among Pastoralist Communities in the Lake Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya, Five Thousand Years Ago to the Present

Pamela Nayeli Lara Tufino, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Indiana University, Bloomington
Ancient Waterscapes in Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi, Mexico: Ritual Practices and Community Relationships During the Classic Period (AD 2001000)

Kristin Mallinson, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Missouri
The Timing and Impact of Knossian Influence and the Theran Eruption on the Stelida Peak Sanctuary: Creating a Radiocarbon Chronology

Mallory Matsumoto, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Texas at Austin
Epigraphic Documentation at the Classic Maya Site of Benemérito De Las Américas Primera Sección, Chiapas, Mexico

Matthew McCarty, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of British Columbia
Materializing Mithras-Worship: Archival and Archaeometric Archaeology of the Dura Mithraeum

Stanley Osinachi Nwosu, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Pittsburgh
Networks of Power and Trade: Household Wealth and Status in Arochukwu, Nigeria During and After the Transatlantic Era

Jo Osborn, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Texas A&M University
Pre-Agricultural Enso Resilience on the Peruvian Coast: New Analysis of Legacy Archaeological Collections

Racheal B. Oyundoyin, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Northwestern University
Food in the Negotiation of Political and Economic Power in Ede-Ile, a Colony of Old Oyo Empire, Nigeria, c. 16001836

J. Theodore Peña, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of California, Berkeley
Pompeii Artifact Life History Project

Irene Bald Romano, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Arizona
Marble Analysis of Hellenistic Statuettes From Parthian Qalatga Darband

Beth K. Scaffidi, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of California, Merced
Cooperation During a Climate Crisis? Establishing a Timeline of English Settlement and Croatoan Indian Subsistence Practices on Hatteras Island, North Carolina, in the Long Sixteenth Century

Nicole Smith, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Los Angeles
A Comparative Study of the Preservation and Erasure of Contemporary Migrant Material Culture from the Arizona-Mexico Border to the Balkans

William Taylor, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Colorado, Boulder
Understanding the Early Dispersal of Horses and Donkeys in the Atlantic World

Architecture

Architecture 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Hollyamber A. Kennedy, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Northwestern University
Fallow Fields: The Remnant Landscapes and Residual Architectures of the German Colonial Frontier

Deepa Ramaswamy, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Houston    
Reclaimed Lands: Soil, Speculation, and the History of Making Land in Mumbai
 

Art History

Art History 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Monica Amor, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Maryland Institute College of Art    
Maria Lai: To Be Is to Weave

Anne Leader, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Virginia    
Disambiguating Florentine Families

Amy Oakland, Franklin Research Grant 2026, California State University, East Bay    
Wari Dating Project, Textile Styles, and Time Periods in the Middle Horizon

Margaret Samu, Franklin Research Grant 2026, New School    
Popularizing Art in Central Europe and Beyond: Albert Henry Payne's Art Albums for the Nineteenth-Century Middle Classes

Shivani Sud, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Reed College    
World-Making in Jaipur Painting: Visualizing Space, Place, and the Long Eighteenth Century

Juliet Wiersema, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Texas, San Antonio    
English Designs on the Spanish Pacific: William Hacke's South Sea Waggoners and England's Imperial Ambitions, 1650–1700
 

Astrobiology

Astrobiology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Pablo Aran, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, University of Arizona
Microbiology of High-Elevation Permafrost: Key to Understanding the Habitability of Ground Ice on Mars

Ignacio de la Higuera Hernandez, Blumberg Grants in Astrobiology 2026, Portland State University
RNA-DNA Gene Exchange in Virus Origins and Evolution

Katherine Dzurilla, Blumberg Grants in Astrobiology 2026, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Phosphite as a Primitive Phosphorus Source in Early Life

Ligia Patricia Fonseca Coelho, Blumberg Grants in Astrobiology 2026, Cornell University
Europa's Spectral Biosignatures: From Terrestrial Analogs to Telescope Observations

Aoshuang Ji, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, University of California, Riverside
Fingerprinting Biogenic Methane with Clumped Isotopologues: Advancing the Search for Life in the Solar System and Beyond

Eduardo Martinez, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Investigating the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Phosphate and Structural Water in Viviante in Mars Analog Environments as a Potential Biosignature

Anurup Mohanty, Blumberg Grants in Astrobiology 2026, Northwestern University
Genomic Exploration of Microbial Survival Strategies in the Deep Subsurface

Hannah Beryl Rappaport, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, Syracuse University
Expanding a Clade of Extremely Thermophilic Amoebae

Tuhi Saumya, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, Georgia Institute of Technology
Spectral and Mineralogical Investigation of Terrestrial Lava Deltas as Analogs for Potentially Habitable Hydrovolcanic Environments on Mars

Cassandra Helena Skaar, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Do Novel Phage-Microbe Interactions Control Microbial Activity in Extremely Acidic Environments?

Harrison Trethowan, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, University of Miami
Identification of RNA Viruses Infecting Biogeochemically Active Archaea in Anoxic, Sulfidic Lakes

Caldon Thomas Whyte, Blumberg Grants in Astrobiology 2026, Florida Institute of Technology
White Dwarf Exoplanet Atmospheric Modeling-AOGS 2026 Session Talk

Yuanyue Yao, Lewis and Clark Fund in Astrobiology 2026, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Investigating Snowball Earth and Interglacial Paleoenvironmental Conditions in Oman in Relation to Co-Evolution of Complex Life

Biology

Biology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Emmanuel C. Chukwuma, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Synthesizing Phylogenetic, Morphological, and Ecological Data to Unravel the Evolutionary Adaptations in Genus Alectra (Orobanchaceae) in South Africa and Namibia

Richard Thomas Gawne, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Nevada State Museum
Revisiting the Scarlet Tiger Moth Studies of R. A. Fisher and E. B. Ford: Contemporary Insights into Classical Research From Evolutionary Biology's Modern Synthesis

Marta Sofia Hess, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Clemson University
From Surf to Summit: Exploring Evolution in Action in the Waterfall-Climbing Goby Fishes of West Africa

Peyton Jones, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Washington
Characterizing Intraseasonal Variation in Floral Nutrition and Pollinator Foraging Patterns in Colorado

Lauren Lubeck,  Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Stanford University
Uncovering the Origin of Chordate Features Using the Developmental Biology of Cryptic Pterobranch Hemichordates in Bermuda

Camryn H. Middlebrooks, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Texas Christian University
Tracing Methylmercury Pathways from Ponds to Predators: A Study of Arctic Foxes in Pituffik, Greenland
 

Botany

Botany 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Jeremy Howland, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Graduate Center, City University of New York    
Unraveling the Influence of Locally Adapted Algal Partners (Trebouxia) on the Distribution of the Cosmopolitan Lichen Fungus Flavoparmelia caperata (Parmeliaceae) in North America

Ryan J. Schmidt-Knapik, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Harvard University    
Evolutionary Ecology of Verbascum (Scrophulariaeae) in Spain, the Canary Islands, and Northern Africa: A New Model Clade for Studying Introgression and Invasive Species
 

Conservation

Conservation 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Edgar Francisco, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Stanford University   
Strategically Diversifying Farms Benefits Wildlife and Smallholders in Costa Rica
 

Dance and Theater

Dance and Theater 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Beto O'Byrne, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Bard College    
Forget the Alamo: A Conjunto Cabaret
 

Ecology

Ecology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Nadia Alhassani, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Colorado, Boulder
Assessing Alpine Community Responses to Divergent Hydroclimatic Trends Across Western U.S. Mountains

Lina M. Aragon Baquero, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Miami
Insights Into the Future of Páramo High-Elevation Grasslands as Carbon Sink in the Colombian Tropical Andes

Rodrigo Bello Carvalho, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Stanford University
Beyond Defaunation: Consequences of the Loss of Large Animals on Seed Dispersal in African and Brazilian Savannas

Manogya Chandar, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of New Mexico
Predicting Native Bee Population Responses to Increased Climate Variability in the Desert Southwest

Isabel del Toro Mijares, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Columbia University
Evaluating Tropical Tree Intra-Species Variability in Water-Uptake Depth in the Western and Southeastern Amazon

Maia Edwards, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Tulane University
Merging Fieldwork With Emerging Technology to Assess Links Between Ecosystem Productivity, Competition, and Community Structure of Tropical Birds in Ecuador

Eve Farrell, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Harvard University
How Does Soil Microbial Diversity Drive Productivity in Temperate Forests? A Study in Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts

Chloe A. Gehret, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Washington University in St. Louis
Root Trait-Mediated Leaf Litter Decomposition Along a Tropical Montane Elevational Gradient in the Southern Inter-Andean Valleys of Ecuador: Unearthing the Role of Below-Ground Traits in Ecosystem Function

Alexandria Carino Malilay, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Carbon Sequestration in Reef Ecosystems: The Potential of Coral Reef Halos and Predator Abundance in Merizo and Tumon Bay, Guam

Claire Marino, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Study of the Photosynthetic Ecophysiology of Skunk Cabbage in Eastern North America

Ashish Nambiar, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Indiana University, Bloomington
Seeing Forests in Three Dimensions: Linking Canopy Structural Complexity to Belowground Function in Malaysia

Lindsey Reimels, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Old Dominion University
Estimating Microplastic Burden in Humpback Whale Supergroups in the Benguela Current, South Africa

Sarah P. Rider, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Clemson University
Impacts of Coral Restoration on Goby Fish Habitat Availability and Mutualistic Cleaning Behaviors in Bonaire

Maya Sagarin, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Los Angeles
Forest Community Structure and Species' Coexistence in a Hyperdiverse Forest in Ecuador's Yasuní National Park

Andie Sonnen, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Wake Forest University
Drivers of Reforestation Success After Alluvial Gold Mining in Madre De Dios, Peru

Yiran Su, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Montana
Effects of Heavy Metal Contamination on the Physiology, Behavior, and Fitness of Tree Swallows in Western Montana

Nicholas Wright, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of British Columbia
Does Apex Carnivore Rewilding Generate Trophic Cascades in an African Savanna?

Jordann Young, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Santa Cruz
Feeding the Future: How Milk Composition and Contamination Influence Juvenile Survival in the Sarasota Bay Community of Bottlenose Dolphins

Kaitlyn Elizabeth Young, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Louisiana State University
Elevational Movements of Andean-Endemic Yungas Manakin

Economics

Economics, 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Kara Dimitruk, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Hamilton College    
The Administration of Justice and Courts in British South Africa
 

Entomology

Entomology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Lena Heinrich, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
How Do Functional Traits Shape Foraging Strategies of Amazonian Stingless Bees?

Eleanor R. Terner, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Berkeley
The Little Things That Run the World and the Roads That Run Them Over: Insect Community Composition and Gene Flow Across Wildlife Crossing Structures in San Diego, California
 

Environmental Sciences

Environmental Sciences 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Sedona Goeman-Shulsky, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of California, Los Angeles
Sensorial Aesthetics of Fishy Environments 

Kate Henderson, Nancy Halverson Schless Short Term Fellowship 2026, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
A Historical Perspective on Attitudes Towards Fish in Human-Dominated Systems 

Edmundo Rafael Mendoza, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Santa Cruz
Assessing Trophic Status as a Driver of Methane Emissions from Peatlands of the Colombian Amazon

Precious Nyabami, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Merced
The Dynamics of Pyrogenic Carbon Post Wildfire in Soils of Different Mineralogy in California Natural Forest Ecosystems
 
Masha Vernik, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Washington, Seattle
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change in the Post-Soviet Republic of Georgia 
 

Evolution

Evolution 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Céline M. Carneiro, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Texas at Austin
Estimating the Evolutionary Potential of Eleutherodactylus coqui in Puerto Rico to Persist With Future Climate Change

Shasta S. W. Corvus, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Columbia University
Can Migratory Birds in Kent, Connecticut, and Raleigh, North Carolina, Keep Pace With Climate Change?

Zachary Culumber, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Why Melanism Persists: Tests From Collections and the Field

Isaac Hudson Foy, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Denver
Exploring Climate Change as a Factor in Reproductive Isolation Between Two Hybridizing North American Cricket Species

David Meszaros, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Cognitive Ecology and Spatial Foraging in Chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest In Western Uganda: The Role of Nutrition in Spatial Decision-Making

Alyssa Rose Nowicki, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Columbia University
Examining Evolutionary and Molecular Mechanisms of Phenological Adaptation in a Migratory Songbird: A Reciprocal Transplant Experiment in Connecticut and North Carolina

Julianna Porter, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, Davis
The Ecology and Evolution of Life-History Traits in a Range-Shifting Marine Invertebrate Along the California Coast

Taylor S. Probst, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Oklahoma
Investigating the Evolutionary Origin of Green Blood in New Guinean Lizards: An Expedition to the Schrader Mountains

Maximiliano Zuluaga-Forero, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Cornell University
Life-History Trade-Offs Within Species: Investigating Mechanisms That Support Intraspecific Diversity Under Natural Conditions in Georgetown, Guyana
 

Film Studies

Film Studies 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Débora Galia Kantor, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires
Jewish Émigré Artists in the Argentine Film Industry During World War II: Solidarity Networks, Individual Trajectories, and Government Policy

Geography

Geography 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

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Geology

Geology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Christopher R. Coggins, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Hudson Valley - Simon's Rock College at Bard
Mapping China's Fengshui Forests: Surveying Community-Protected Woodlands to Save the World's Richest Subtropical Forest Biome

Wilhemina Colón Loder, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Texas at Austin
Understanding Human-Environment Dynamics in Ancient Maya Wetland Anthromes Through the Function and Persistence of Wetland Fields in the Pre-Classic to Post-Classic Periods

Eve Devillers, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Cornell University
Clouds on the Ground: Investigating the Socio-Environmental Impacts of Data Centers in Johor, Malaysia

Hemant Raj Ghimire, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Clark University
The Role of Small Hydropower Projects in Local Development: Understanding the Interaction Between Impacts and Benefits at the Local Level in Nepal

Sally Horn, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Environmental History From Pond Sediments and Soils on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

Tai K. Koester, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Arizona
Onshoring Extraction: Energy Dominance and the Reconfiguration of Rural America, San Juan County, Utah

Jong-Ku Park, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Texas State University, San Marcos
Relational Justice in Practice: A Field-Based Study of South Korea's Agrivoltaic Transition
 

History, Africa

History, Africa 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Phillip Cantrell, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Longwood University
Routes of Ruin: Mapping the 1890s Rinderpest and Its Social Consequences in East and Southern Africa

Timothy Scarnecchia, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Kent State University
Freedoms Under Pressure? South African Economic Policy Negotiations and Anglo-American Diplomacy, 19901994
 

History, America

History, America 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Andrew Abrams, Swan Foundation Short-Term Fellowship for Revolutionary-Era Material Culture 2026, William & Mary College
All in a Day’s Work: Labor, Technology, and Temporality in Early America

Anna Apostolidis, David Center for the American Revolution Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of Pennsylvania
Social Contracts: Consent in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Ikuko Asaka, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Japan and Hawai‘I in the Making of United States Military Empire in the Asia Pacific

Avonlea Bowthorpe, Barra Foundation Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship 2026, William & Mary College
Confidence and Coercion: Gender and Economic Agency in the British Atlantic, 17131800

Justin Clark, David Center for the American Revolution Short-Term Fellowship 2026, Temple University
Who Is Fit to Lead? How Public Debates Over National Leadership Shaped the Memory and Meaning of the American Revolution,17871801

Emmanuelle de Champs, David Center for the American Revolution Fellowship (International) 2026, Cergy Paris Université
Frances Wright (17951852), Itineraries of Transnational Emancipation (France, Britain, and the United States)

Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Kansas
Reinterpreting the Horse

Rachel Gross, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Colorado, Denver
Surplus: A World Remade by Military Junk

Jenna Hardin, David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellowship 2026, William & Mary College
Cupid’s Dart: Making and Breaking Romantic Relationships in Revolutionary America, 17651815

Sveinn M. Jóhannesson, David Center for the American Revolution Fellowship (International) 2026, Háskóli Íslands
Military Thought in the American Revolution

Chloe Kauffman, Barra Foundation Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship 2026, University of Maryland
"If women are curious, women like also to speak": Unmarried Women, Sexual Knowledge, and Female Mentorship in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic

Cameron Kline, Edward C. Carter II Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Syracuse University
Improvisation and Empire: Indigenous Diplomacy, Colonial Governance, and the Albany Conference of 1754

Allyson LaForge, Daythal L. Kendall Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship 2026, Boston University
Materializing Futurity: Networks of Native Women's Organizing in the Northeast

Marian Leech, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of Pennsylvania
Wampum, Furs, and the Making of Possession in the Dutch Atlantic World, 15901713

Felicity MacKenzie, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of Edinburgh
Charles Lyell’s Civilising Mission, 18161865: Geology, Education, Race and Progress

Daniel Majerowicz, Samuel Victor Constant Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, University of California, Riverside
Negotiating the Commonwealth: Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, and State-Building in Early Pennsylvania, 1681-1720

Nick McKenna, David Center for the American Revolution Short-Term Fellowship 2026, Johns Hopkins University
Before the Shot Heard 'Round the World

Dana Velasco Murillo, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of California, San Diego
Chichimeca Arc: War, Peace, and Resettlement in America's First Borderlands

Laura Nelson, Friends of the APS Predoctoral Fellowship 2026, Princeton University
Living by the Higher Law: Legal Thought, Social Order, and Antislavery Activism in Philadelphia’s Free Black Community

George D. Oberle, Mellon Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, George Mason University
Constructing American Histories: Learned Societies and the Building of the Scientific Archives

Jessica Parr, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Northeastern University
Spatial Lives of the Black Atlantic: Self-Making, Place, and the Archives, 17701860

Sandra Rebok, David Center for the American Revolution Fellowship (International) 2026, Spanish National Research Council
Growing Entanglements: New Spain and the Threat of U.S. Independence, 17691783

Gil Ribak, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Arizona,
“Let the Uncircumcised Gentile Have a Little Respect for Me, Too”: Self-Censorship in Yiddish Culture in a Historical Perspective

Kevin Rogan, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, Rutgers University
Two Tongues: Friends, Seneca, and Market Revolution, 17991848

Peter Soland, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Houston, Downtown
The Radiance of Tlatelolco: Politics, Culture, and Nuclear Technology in Mexico and Argentina

Ainsley Williams, Swan Foundation Short-Term Fellowship for Revolutionary-Era Material Culture 2026
Texas State University, San Marcos
"To Me It Conveys Much:" Elite Femininity through Dress and Textiles in Sarah Wister’s Revolution

Tingfeng Yan, David Center for the American Revolution Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of Chicago
Constitutions Between the Government and the People in the Founding-Era United States

Zoe Zimmerman, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, Princeton University
Epistemological Borderlands: Natural Knowledge, Collaboration, and Contestation in the Colonial Northeast

History, Ancient

History, Ancient 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Columbia University
Romans Abroad: Identity, Place, and Empire
 

History, Asia

History, Asia 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Neilesh Bose, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Victoria    
International Human Rights and Decolonization: Global Histories of Activism

Robert Culp, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Bard College    
Circuits of Meaning: Chinese Publishing and the Sinophone Reader in Southeast Asia, 19001950

Aparna Kapadia, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Williams College    
Kasturba: Walking With Gandhi

Christopher McCarthy, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Johns Hopkins University    
Mapping Inner Asian Trade Routes: Qing and Gaihōzu Cartographic Collections in U.S. and Japanese Archives

Eren Murat Tasar, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill    
Orthodoxy in Soviet Central Asia

Ran Zwigenberg, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Pennsylvania State University    
Ashes: Human Remains and Global Holocaust Commemoration
 

History, Early Modern Europe

History, Early Modern Europe 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Catherine Akeroyd, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Australian National University
Colonising Terra Australis: Visual Strategies and Cartographic Persuasion

Christopher Gillett, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Union Theological Seminary 
Catholicism and Revolution: Constitutional Activism and Anti-Popery in England and Its Empire, 16231678

Francesco P. Lacopo, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Southeast Missouri State University
Sea of Missionaries, Houses of Converts: The Papal States in the Missionary World, 14921622

Kiril Petkov, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Wisconsin, River Falls 
Sly Entrepreneurship: Speculative Innovation and Economic Modernization in the Twilight of Old Regime Venice

Stefano Villani, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Maryland, College Park
Leonardo Philaras: An Italianized Athenian Between Mazarin, Milton, and Cromwell
 

History, Europe

History, Europe 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

William I. Brustein, Franklin Research Grant 2026, West Virginia University
Genocide Choices: Indifference or Compassion? Saving Jews During the Holocaust in Vichy France

Theodora Dragostinova, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Ohio State University
Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the Post-1918 Balkans

Erika D. Rappaport, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of California, Santa Barbara
Whitewash: How Public Relations Spun the End of Empire

Nick Underwood, Franklin Research Grant 2026, College of Idaho
Community Development as Antifascism: The Rue Amelot and Jewish Resistance in Vichy and Nazi-Occupied France
 

History, Medieval

History, Medieval 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Adam Franklin-Lyons, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Emerson College
Surveillance and Communication in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Ryan K. Low, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of North Dakota
Late Medieval Experiments in Information Management: Notarial Finding Aids in Rural Provence

Gary Macy, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Santa Clara University
Transcription of Robert of Courson's Summa Contained in British Library Manuscript Royal 9.e.xiv
 

History of Science, Technology, & Medicine

Leigh Alon, John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science 2026, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jewish Healthcare Workers and the Rise of Jewish American Hereditarian Thought

Becca Hamilton, Mellon Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Circulating Contagion, Collective Forms: Microbial Life in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination

Julia F. Irwin, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Louisiana State University
The Seventh Pandemic: Cholera, Humanitarianism, and Development in a Globalizing World

Diane Paul, Fedwa Malti-Douglas Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Harvard University
In the Name of Anti-Eugenics

Séan Thomas Kane, Eugene Garfield Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Binghamton University
The Singularities of André Thevet: Naturalia in French Cosmography

Janna Mueller, Mellon Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, University of Cambridge
Airstones and Fireballs: Knowledge Transfers Between Heaven and Earth Sciences, ca. 1770–1900

Dolma Ombadykow, Mellon Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Yale University
The Human and Its Borders After Biology: Twentieth-Century Maintenance of Life, Livability, and Labor, 1900–1961

Ohad Reiss Sorokin, William T. Golden Short-Term Fellowship 2026, Princeton University
Kuhn in Princeton: Building the History of Science as a Discipline

John Thomas Sullivan, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Huntington Library
Fractious Knowledge: Earthquakes and Engineering in Eighteenth-Century Italy and the Spanish Atlantic

Samantha Wesner, Friends of the APS Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Cornell University
Citizens Electric: Revolutionary Electricity in the French Atlantic World

Asif Siddiqi, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Fordham University
Departure Gates: Postcolonial Histories of Space on Earth

Iryna Vushko, Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Princeton University
Refugees, Sciences, and the Bomb: Stanisław Ulam and International Math, 1909–1984
 

History of Science, Technology, & Medicine 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

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Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Studies 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Sarah Ahmedani, Phillips Fund 2026, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Beyond These Walls: Thomas Indian School, Seneca Memory, and the Remaking of Community, 1855–1957

Madison Carlstrom, Phillips Fund 2026, Utah State University
"Had She Been a White Woman”: Indigenous Womanhood and the Law in 1760s Colonial Williamsburg

Lydia Curliss, Mellon Foundation NASI Archives Training Fellowship 2026–2028, University of Maryland, College Park
Reclaiming Indigenous Southern New England: Disentangling Indigenous Knowledges and Belongings in Settler Colonial Cultural Heritage Memory Institutions

Caroline Egan, Mellon Foundation Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Northwestern University
New World Medievalisms: Reading Medieval Iberia Through the Indigenous Americas

Victoria Marina Eisenhart, Phillips Fund 2026, University of Oregon
Tacking Down Community Partnerships: Building an Ethical Approach to Anthropological Practice Through Beadwork

Adam Fertig, Phillips Fund 2026, New York University
Uncertain Ground: Archaeology, Development, and U.S-Tribal Relations, 1960s–1990s

Marjorie Glatzmaier, Phillips Fund 2026, Trident University International
An Epidemiological Study of Living on the Blackfeet Nation Reservation and the Association With the Physical Health and Social Well-Being of the Indigenous Population

Beatriz Goubert, Mellon Foundation NASI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026, Columbia University
Reanimating Indigenous Archives: Muisca Sound, Material Culture, and Community-Governed Access

Lydia Heberling, Phillips Fund 2026, California Polytechnic State University
Flows: Mapping Dispossessions and Reimagining Kinship in Payahuunadü

Bryce Jones, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of Oklahoma
Earthworks Remade: Native Landscapes, American Settlement, and Ohio's Mounds in Transition

Ashley N. Lewis, Phillips Fund 2026, University of California, Davis
Tides of Power: Quinault Sovereignty and Indigenous Fishing, 1905–1964

Alex Lilburn, Phillips Fund 2026, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sovereign Techniques: History of Media Practice in the Osage Nation

Nikki Locklear, Mellon Foundation NASI Predoctoral Fellowship 2026, Duke University
Painting the Tree Red and Black: Indigeneity, Race, and Unfreedom in the American South, 1720–1840

Mark Mallory, Phillips Fund 2026, Texas A&M University
Where Rests John Horse?: Memory, Gender, and Sustained Racial Illegibility in the Black Seminole Diaspora

Emily J. Martin, Phillips Fund 2026, University of California, Berkeley
Serving Sickness: Diet and Tuberculosis Susceptibility on Sioux Lands, 1880–1930

Josias Agustín Mendez, Mellon Foundation NASI Predoctoral Fellowship 2026, Columbia University
"You are still Earth Buffalo": Bison Resiliency and Indigenous Sovereignty at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Sierra Rebecca Mondragon, Phillips Fund 2026, University of Washington, Seattle
To Hold and Be Held: Tewa Women Shaping Pueblo Belonging and Sovereignty, 1848–Present-Day New Mexico

Jonthan Joseph Nattrass, Phillips Fund 2026, George Washington University
And They Knew No Peace From God or Satan: English, French, and Indians in the Northeast Spiritual Borderland

Will David Norton, Phillips Fund 2026, University of Texas at Austin
The Language and Lives of Dena'ina Stories

Mariah A. Ribeiro, Phillips Fund 2026, University of Washington, Seattle
Performing Modernisms: Native Print and Photographic Practices, 1887–1934

Benjamin Riley, Phillips Fund 2026, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
The Ripple Effect of American Colonial Caricatures of Native Americans: An Analysis of Native American Imagery in Film and Advertising in South Korea

Lara Roessig, Phillips Fund 2026, University of Erfurt
Not a One-Horse Race: Indigenous Relay Racing Between Native Tradition and Settler Spectacle

Christopher A. Roy, Phillips Fund 2026, Independent scholar
Documenting Emma Mead: An Oneida and Abenaki Woman in the Adirondacks

Nathanael Thompson, Daythal L. Kendall Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship 2026, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Hahtsináywa?awsa?: Recovering Hasínay Prosody and Language Sovereignty
 

Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Ingrid Brioso Rieumont, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Dartmouth College
Unborn Enslaved and the Free Womb Law in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Inés Corujo Martín, Franklin Research Grant 2026, City University of New York
Fashioning the Hispanic World: Women's Objects, Identity, and Material Culture, 1820–1898

Lisa P. Covert, Franklin Research Grant 2026, College of Charleston
Shifting Terrain: Humanitarian Aid and Development After the 1950 Cusco Earthquake

Max Deardorff, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Florida
At Sea and Ashore: Convicts, Slaves, and the Galleys of the Spanish Global Monarchy

Daniel Alejandro Delgado, John Hope Franklin Fellowship 2026, University of Southern California
Unfinished Freedoms: Immigration, Race, and Labor in Cuba, 1898–1952

John David French, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Duke University
“Pure Photojournalism"? Event, Truth, and Narrative in São Paulo, Brazil, 1979–1980

Walter L. Koppmann, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Buenos Aires
Yiddishkayt on the Barricades: Forging a Jewish Working Class in Buenos Aires, 1890–1930

Daniel McDonald, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Oxford, Maryknoll
Latin America, and Catholicism's Global Cold War

Terry Rugeley, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Fountain Pen Translations LLC
Eduard Seler and the Birth of Mexican Archaeology
 

Linguistics

Linguistics 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Sunkulp Ananthanarayan, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Washington, Seattle
(Socio-)Linguistic Documentation of Intergenerational Panãra, a Jê Language Spoken by a Regrowing Population

Raul Aranovich, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of California, Davis
The Unwinding of Linguistic Anthropology

Avelino Corral Esteban, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Smithsonian Institution
Documentation and Preservation of the Asturian Language Through Its Grammatical Analysis and Its Practical Application in an Educational Context

Devon Denny, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of California, San Diego
Diné Bizaad (Navajo) Language Project

Autum C. M. Jules, Phillips Fund 2026, Simon Fraser University
Measuring Systems and Linguistic Analysis of Lingít Dugout Construction and Navigation

Erin Karnatz, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, SUNY Buffalo
Serial Verb Constructions in Guadeloupean Creole

Zijiong Luo, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Washington, Seattle
Exploring Tone Sandhi Patterns in Sanmen Wu Spoken in Zhejiang Province, China

Bailey Trotter, Phillips Fund 2026, University of British Columbia
Five Ways to Think in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon)
 

Literature & Literary History, Early

Literature & Literary History, Early 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Hayle Cotter, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rhetorics of the Early Modern Map

Peter Grund, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Yale University
Writing the Salem Witch Trials: The Recorders of the Salem Witch Trial Documents

Jannine Montauban, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Montana, Missoula
Rome and the Eroticism of Space in Francisco Delicado’s La Lozana Andaluza (1528)

Matti Peikola, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Turku (Finland)
Writing the Salem Witch Trials: The Recorders of the Salem Witch Trial Documents

Jason Powell, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Saint Joseph's University
The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Volume II: Poetry
 

Literature & Literary History, Modern

Literature & Literary History, Modern 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Frances R. Botkin, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Towson University
Black Marketeering and Global Tourism: Representations of Jamaican Higglers From the Plantation to the Present Day

Naomi Caffee, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Reed College
N. Scott Momaday and Indigenous Eurasia: Writing Beyond Renaissance

Alex de Voogt, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Drew University
Another Hand: Comparisons Between Scribes of Muyaka's Poetry in Swahili-Arabic Script

Anne E. Fernald, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Fordham University
Jessie Fauset: A Life

Kaitlin Moore, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Wake Forest University
Quantum Currents: Indigenous Cosmologies and Virtual Reality Poetics

Urmila Seshagiri, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Still Shocking: Encounters With Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Wan Sonya Tang, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Boston College
Mutual Exoticism: A Taiwanese Author's Literature on and Legacy in Spain
 

Literature & Literary Studies, Medieval

Literature & Literary Studies, Medieval 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Marisa Libbon, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Bard College    
An Edition of Richard Coeur De Lion for the Early English Text Society

Kathryn McKinley, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Boccaccio's Classicism and the Resistance of Dominican Friars: Studies in the Esposizioni and the Genealogia Deorum
 

Mathematics

Mathematics 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Ursula M. Molter, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Buenos Aires
Pollution Source Recovery Using Dynamical Sampling
 

Medicine

Medicine 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Alison Huckenpahler, Daland Fellowship 2024 (renewal), Washington University in St. Louis
Developing Machine-Learning Tools for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Treatment-Resistant Depression

Sara Heather Small, Daland Fellowship 2024 (renewal), Fox Chase Cancer Center
Developing New Treatment Strategies for Chemotherapy-Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia
 

Middle Eastern Studies

Middle Eastern Studies 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Paul Love, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane (Morocco)
Leaving Nafusa: Migrant Manuscript Journeys From the Mountains of Northwestern Libya

Mason Chaffin Wilkes, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Liege (Belgium)
Sources for Sumerian Proverb Collection 2 in the Penn Museum
 

Music

Music 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Richard Jankowsky, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Tufts University
Curating Cultural Repair: Lessons from Ritual for a New Sound Archive of Endangered Black Tunisian Music

Arne Spohr, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Bowling Green State University
Concealed Music in Early Modern Pleasure Houses, 15501800
 

Oceanography

Oceanography 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Ian Vincent Hughes, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, Harvard University
Exploring an Ecologically Critical Seagrass Symbiosis in Barbados and Antigua

Jan H. Witting, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Sea Education Association
Sentinels of Climate Impacts in Pacific Ocean Ecosystems: Leveraging Rapid Image Acquisition and AI Techniques to Investigate Changes in Zooplankton Composition in a Unique Twenty-Five-Year Data Set
 

Paleontology

Paleontology 2026-2027 Awardees and Projects

Jonah N. Choiniere, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of the Witwatersrand
Tracing the Rise of Tyrannosaurs: A Detailed Anatomical Investigation of the Earliest Known Species

Theodore Matel, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
Pre-Industrial Leaf Deposits in Northwestern Amazonia Inform Water Use Changes in Response to Rising CO2

Irene E. Smail, Franklin Research Grant 2026, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Paleoecological, Biochronological, and Evolutionary Significance of Fossil Rodents From Ledi Geraru, Ethiopia
 

Philosophy

Philosophy 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Gregory S. McElwain, Franklin Research Grant 2026, College of Idaho
Mary Midgley on What Matters

Andrew Frederick Smith, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Drexel University
Yesą́ Histories of Survivance
 
 

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Jan Potters, Eugene Garfield Short-Term Research Fellowship 2026, Universiteit Antwerpen
Questioning the Quantum: On Thomas Kuhn and Sources for History of Quantum Physics

Political Science

Political Science 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Steven Brooke, Franklin Research Grant 2026, University of Wisconsin, Madison    
Civilian Victimization and Protection in the 1941 Baghdad Riots

Joel Winkelman, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Hamilton College
Harold Lasswell's Psychiatric Thought
 

Psychology

Psychology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Andrew Pines, Daland Fellowship 2025 (first year), Brigham and Women's Hospital
Translating Brain Circuit Mapping Into New Treatments for Schizophrenia

Patrick K. Reardon, Daland Fellowship 2025 (first year), Massachusetts General Hospital
Dissecting Circuit Dysfunction Underlying Cognitive Impairment in Psychotic Disorders
 

Religion

Religion 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Larissa S. Carneiro, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Duke University
Ayahuasca in Brazil: Where Religion Meets Science

Jue Liang, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Case Western Reserve University
Souls on the Road: Pilgrimages to Tibet in the Chinese Religious Revival
 

Sociology

Sociology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Brandie Pugh, Franklin Research Grant 2026, West Virginia University
Women in Plain Communities: Establishing Foundational Knowledge on Abuse and Perceptions of Outside Intervention

Francisco Sanchez, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Texas at Austin
To Live and Die in the Amazon: Suicide, Social Disaster, and Indigenous Expertise in the Venezuelan Colombian Amazonian Border

Berna Turam, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Northeastern University
Afghan Refugee Women and the Politics of Emotions: From Partially Free(d) and Insecure to Safe Eventually?
 

Zoology

Zoology 2026–2027 Awardees and Projects

Beatriz Dybas da Natividade, Lewis and Clark Fund 2026, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ecological Networks and Functional Roles of Phytophagous Bats in the Caribbean