Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences

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Please note: the individual filling out this application must be the official applicant.

Do you have a doctoral degree in anthropology or are you affiliated with an anthropology department?

YesNo The Foundation is only accepting applications from scholars with a Ph.D. in anthropology—socio-cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, or archaeology (or their equivalent in countries where these fields are named differently)—or who are currently affiliated with anthropology departments or their equivalents.

STOP NOW. We are only accepting applications from scholars with a PhD in anthropology—socio-cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, or archaeology (or their equivalent in countries where these fields are named differently)—or who are currently affiliated with anthropology departments or their equivalents. Due to the large increase in applications we are now receiving, we have had to tighten our eligibility requirements.

If you believe you may still be eligible despite not meeting the stated conditions, please send a message with your CV to applications@wennergren.org to confirm your eligibility.

Are you a U.S. citizen or permanent resident?

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STOP NOW. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident to apply for this fellowship this season.

Before you begin your application, please consult the Foundation’s
Generative AI Policy.

Thank you for applying to the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Please provide the requested information as accurately and completely as possible. We appreciate the time and care that goes into preparing an application and look forward to reviewing your submission.

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Proposed Project Title

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Project abstract

This should be a general description of your proposal in language that an interested layperson could understand. If your application is successful, we will post this abstract on the Foundation’s website. By submitting your application, you grant the Foundation permission to publish the project abstract on the Foundation’s website and/or use it for other purposes related to the Foundation’s activities.
Please keep response to 200 words.

Fellowship duration:
We award this fellowship for a nine-month period of full-time writing beginning on September 1 of the year following the application deadline.

List the country or countries where you will be writing.

Project Description

Be sure to use the Application Guide on the Foundation’s website to prepare your project description.

Question 1
Describe the research that forms the basis of your proposed writing project. What conclusions did you draw in this study?

If you are planning to conduct further research during the fellowship period, please explain how this work will help you achieve your publication goals.
Please keep response to 1,500 words.

Question 2
How did you gather evidence to support these conclusions? Describe your research design and process?

If you are planning to conduct further research, describe your research design and process for this future phase of your work.
Please keep response to 500 words.

Question 3
Describe the publications you plan to complete during the period of the fellowship.

Provide an annotated outline of their contents.
Please keep response to 500 words.

Question 4
What contributions will this project make to one or more traditions of anthropology?

The Wenner-Gren Foundation’s mission is to support innovative research in anthropology. We are interested in funding work that does more than simply add to an existing body of knowledge. How will your publications bring new insights to the field?
Please keep response to 250 words.

Question 5
How will this fellowship help you advance in your career?

What obstacles are preventing you from publishing your research, and how will this award help you overcome them? What audiences, within and beyond academia, do you hope to reach with this work?
Please keep response to 250 words.

Did you have your application translated into English from another language?

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Did you use generative AI in producing this submission?

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The Foundation’s Generative AI Policy stresses transparency, pedagogy, and safety. Please recognize that your submission will be judged according to criteria that prioritize originality, and that a proposal entirely generated with the aid of generative AI is unlikely to meet the standard required for funding. You are responsible for the accuracy and originality of your submission. We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to plagiarism: if you use others’ words without attribution, even inadvertently, you will lose any chance of winning an award. What’s more, when you input your proposal into Generative AI, you run the risk of exposing your prose to plagiarism and threatening the confidentiality of your work.

At the same time, the Foundation recognizes that there are safe and ethical ways in which scholars can use generative AI to enhance their work, from reviewing relevant literature to analyzing data to editing or translating prose. We will not share the following information with our reviewers, but we are interested in understanding how our applicants are using these new tools.

Please describe the tools you used, the prompts you entered, the tasks you accomplished, and how you checked your work for accuracy.

School for Advanced Research Workshop

Would you like to be considered for a week-long workshop next summer at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, focusing on the craft of writing with broad public audiences in mind?

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