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
2026–2027 APS Grants and Fellowships
In 2026–2027 the Society awarded nearly $2 million to just under 300 scholars. The Grants Department funded 234 projects totaling $1,406,068, and the Society’s Library and Museum awarded 54 residential fellowships totaling $543,579.
Navigate by selecting a discipline on the left and learn about the research funded, by project, at the APS for the 2026–2027 awardee year.
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 1702–1803 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. 700–1000 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 300–800) 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 BC–850 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 (~ 2.8–2.6 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 BCE–100 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 800–1200)
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 200–1000)
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. 1600–1836
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, 1990–1994
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, 1713–1800
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,1787–1801
Emmanuelle de Champs, David Center for the American Revolution Fellowship (International) 2026, Cergy Paris Université
Frances Wright (1795–1852), 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, 1765–1815
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, 1590–1713
Felicity MacKenzie, William S. Willis, Jr., Short-Term Fellowship 2026, University of Edinburgh
Charles Lyell’s Civilising Mission, 1816–1865: 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, 1770–1860
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, 1769–1783
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, 1799–1848
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, 1900–1950
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, 1623–1678
Francesco P. Lacopo, Franklin Research Grant 2026, Southeast Missouri State University
Sea of Missionaries, Houses of Converts: The Papal States in the Missionary World, 1492–1622
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
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, 1550–1800
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