Closed · 15-556 · CFDA 47.075 · Discretionary
Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. National Science Foundation, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- Varies
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- -
- Close date
- 50
- Expected awards
The verdict
Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. National Science Foundation that offered Varies by applicant across 50 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- Varies
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 50
- expected awards
- 47.075
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - is cataloged under number 15-556 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 47.075, posted by U.S. National Science Foundation. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on June 6, 2025. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a grant.
Award economics. The award range on file is Varies by applicant. The agency has projected $800,000 in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 50 awards. If the agency funds the expected 50 awards from the $800,000 estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $16,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity is closed. Monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements in the next funding cycle. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
Varies by applicant
Close Date
Not specified
Opportunity is Archived
Posted
June 6, 2025
Est. Total Funding
$800,000
Expected Awards
50
Instrument
Grant
Description
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is tosupport basic scientific research on the causes, consequences, andcomplexities of human social and cultural variability. Anthropological research spans a wide gamut, and contemporary cultural anthropology is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth ofthe field's contributions to science, the Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoreticallyengaged, and methodologically sophisticated research in allsub-fields of cultural anthropology. Because the National ScienceFoundation's mandate is to support basic research, the NSF CulturalAnthropology Program does not fund research that takes as itsprimary goal improved clinical practice or applied policy. A proposal that uses anthropological methods to understand a social problem but does not propose to make a theory-testing and/or theory expanding contribution to anthropology will be returned without review. Program research priorities include, but are not limited to, research thatincreases our understanding of: Socio-cultural drivers of critical anthropogenic processes such asdeforestation, desertification, land cover change, urbanization,and poverty Resilience and robustness of socio-cultural systems Conflict, cooperation, and altruism Economy, culture, migration, and globalization Variability and change in kinship and family norms and practices Cultural and social drivers of health outcomes and disease transmission Social regulation, governmentality, and violence Origins of complexity in socio-cultural systems Language and culture: orality and literacy, sociolinguistics, andcognition Human variation through empirically grounded ethnographicdescriptions Mathematical and computational models of sociocultural systems suchas social network analysis, agent-based models, multi-level models, and modes that integrate agent-based simulations andgeographic information systems (GIS) As part of its effort to encourage and support projects thatexplicitly integrate education and basic research, CA providessupport to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertationprojects designed and carried out by doctoral students enrolled in U.S.universities who are conducting scientific research that enhancesbasic scientific knowledge.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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Parent Grant Program
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
National Science Foundation
Agency Contact
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