Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)
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- Opportunity number
- 25-502
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National Science Foundation
- Applications due
- Award size
- Not on record
Opportunity facts
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- Funding instrument
- Grant
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- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
- Eligible applicants
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About this opportunity
The National Science Foundation is soliciting applications for Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards to support fundamental, theory-generating and theory-testing research on human social and cultural variability, with applications due January 15, 2027. The program will not support research whose primary objective is improved clinical practice, applied policy, or other immediate application; proposals using anthropological methods only to solve social, medical, or other problems without a theory-testing or theory-expanding contribution to anthropological science will be returned without review.
Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education accredited in and having a campus located in the United States (acting on behalf of faculty), non-profit non-academic organizations including independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, and professional societies located in the United States and directly associated with educational or research activities, and federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native tribes. When a proposal includes funding for an international branch campus of a U.S. institution of higher education, the proposer must explain the benefit to the project of performance at the international branch campus and justify why project activities cannot be performed at the U.S. campus.
The program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Acceptable methodologies include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, biomarker collection, experimental research, archival research, analysis of materials collections and extant databases, mathematical and computational modeling, and other research tools appropriate to the proposed research. Proposals should produce empirically grounded findings generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture.
This opportunity is funded under Assistance Listing 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences). Applications should include a data management and sharing plan and comply with NSF registration and submission requirements detailed in NSF 24-006.
Synopsis
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The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, the collection of bio-markers, experimental research inside or outside of laboratory settings, archival research, the analysis of materials collections and extant data bases, mathematical and computational modeling and other research tools as appropriate for the proposed research. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture.
The U.S. National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research. Basic research in cultural anthropology means theory-generating and theory-testing research that creates new knowledge about human culture and society. Therefore, the Cultural Anthropology Program cannot support research that takes as its primary objective improved clinical practice, applied policy or other immediate application. Research that seeks to advance scientific cultural anthropological theories in a way that advances use-inspired objectives may be supported, but the theory-advancing objectives must be clearly at the center of the proposal. A proposal to use anthropological methods and approaches only to find solutions to social, medical or other problems without specifically proposing to make a theory-testing or theory-expanding contribution to anthropological science will be returned without review.
Update #1 ·
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, the collection of bio-markers, experimental research inside or outside of laboratory settings, archival research, the analysis of materials collections and extant data bases, mathematical and computational modeling and other research tools as appropriate for the proposed research. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture. The U.S. National Science Foundation's mandate is to support basic scientific research. Basic research in cultural anthropology means theory-generating and theory-testing research that creates new knowledge about human culture and society. Therefore, the Cultural Anthropology Program cannot support research that takes as its primary objective improved clinical practice, applied policy or other immediate application. Research that seeks to advance scientific cultural anthropological theories in a way that advances use-inspired objectives may be supported, but the theory-advancing objectives must be clearly at the center of the proposal. A proposal to use anthropological methods and approaches only to find solutions to social, medical or other problems without specifically proposing to make a theory-testing or theory-expanding contribution to anthropological science will be returned without review.
Eligibility
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities. -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of sub-awards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus. -Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges as a federally recognized tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. §§ 5130-5131.
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