The Shuar Health and Life History Project has been made possible through the generous funding of a number of federal granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, private foundations (Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research & LSB Leakey Foundation), programs within our universities (University of Oregon, Yale University, Harvard University, CUNY-Queens College), and collaborating agencies in Ecuador. We have also worked closely with a number of research collaborators in the U.S., including Drs. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby from UCSB, Dr. Thom McDade from Northwestern and Dr. Elizabeth Cashdan from Utah who have helped to support the research.

 

External Research Grants

NSF Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant SMA-1606852 (to Urlacher and Snodgrass, along with Pontzer and Dugas): Tradeoffs in Childhood Energy Allocation and the Impact of Market Integration on Ontogeny and Health.

 

NSF Grant BCS-1638786 (to Snodgrass, Cepon-Robins, and Sugiyama, along with Eick, Devlin, and Kowal): Building the Methodological Toolkit in Biological Anthropology: Dried Blood Spot Methods Development for Addressing Key Evolutionary and Biocultural Questions.

 

Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant 9231 (to Gildner, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama): Life History Tradeoffs between Testosterone and Immune Function: Testing the Immunocompetence Handicap Hypothesis.

 

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS-1650674 (to Gildner, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama): Life history tradeoffs between testosterone and immune function among Shuar forager-horticulturalists of Amazonian Ecuador

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Wenner-Gren Foundation Engaged Anthropology Grant (to Madimenos and Sugiyama): Engaging Shuar Communities Through Collaborative Health Education: Enhancing Participant Agency in Indigenous Health Research.

 

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS-1341165 (to Cepon, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama): Social Change, Parasite Exposure, and Immune Dysregulation among Shuar Forager Horticulturalists of Amazonia—An Evolutionary Medicine Approach.

 

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS-1340958 (to Urlacher, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama, along with Ellison): Growth, Immune Function, and the Energetics of Childhood in Indigenous Amazonians.

 

L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant (to Urlacher, along with Ellison): Childhood Energetics: Growth, Immune Function, and Tradeoffs in Amazonia.

 

Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 8749 (to Liebert, Sugiyama, and Snodgrass): Psychosocial Stress and Culture Change among Indigenous Amazonian Shuar: Integrating Developmental, Biological, and Cognitive Perspectives.

 

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS-0824602 (to Blackwell, Sugiyama, and Snodgrass): The Effects of Parental Investment and Market Integration on Growth and Immune Function in an Indigenous Amazonian Population.

 

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS-0925910 (to Madimenos, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama): Lifestyle and Reproductive Effects on Bone Mineral Density in an Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalist Population.

 

Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 7970 (to Madimenos, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama): Lifestyle and Reproductive Effects on bone mineral Density in an Amazonian Forager-Horticulturalist Population.

 

Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 8476 (to Cepon, Snodgrass, and Sugiyama): Social Change, Parasite Exposure, and Autoimmunity among Shuar Forager-Horticulturalists of Amazonia: An Evolutionary Medicine Approach.

 

L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant (to Snodgrass, Sugiyama, and Madimenos): The Effects of Reproductive History and Lifestyle on Bone Density among the Shuar.

 

Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (to Gildner)

 

Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (to Blackwell)

 

Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (to Cepon)

 

Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (to Liebert)

 

Evonuk Foundation (to Madimenos)

 

Ministerio de Salud Pública de Morona Santiago (Ecuador)

 

External Research Grants through our Collaborators

NSF IBSS SMA-1329091 (Age Changes and Gender Differences in Spatial Abilities: Testing the Role of Mobility in Three Non-Industrial Societies and in the US) to Elizabeth Cashdan of the University of Utah and Co-PI Sugiyama

 

NSF BCS-1027687 (Ecology of Inflammation in Lowland Bolivia) to Thomas McDade and William Leonard of Northwestern University

 

NIH 5DP1O000516-04 to Leda Cosmides at the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology

 

Internal Research Grants and other Funding

PSC-CUNY Award Trada A and B (to Madimenos)

 

UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Research Grant (to Cepon)

 

UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Research Grant (to Liebert)

 

UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Research Grant (to Gandolfo, Sugiyama, and Snodgrass)

 

UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Research Grant (to Sugiyama, Scalise Sugiyama, and Snodgrass)

 

UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Laboratory Equipment Grant (to Snodgrass)

 

UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies Research Grant (to Ridgeway-Diaz)

 

UO Anthropology Department (to Sugiyama, Snodgrass, Blackwell, Madimenos, Liebert, Cepon-Robins, and Gildner)

 

UO Bray Fellowship (to Snodgrass)

 

UO Fund for Faculty Excellence (to Snodgrass)

 

UO Faculty Research Award (to Sugiyama)

 

UO Global Oregon Summer Research Award (to Gildner)

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