Description

Jacobs Research Funds (JRF) supports research involving living Indigenous peoples of North and South America. Most funded work is in linguistics, including language documentation and anthropological linguistics, or social-cultural anthropology, including folklore, social organization, political organization, and folk classification. Religion, mythology, music, dance, and other arts are also eligible.

The program prioritizes endangered languages and cultures, Pacific Northwest research, and projects producing new data. Digitizing, transcribing, and translating older materials at risk of becoming lost or inaccessible also receive high priority. Work limited to processing, analyzing, or publishing previously collected data has lower priority. JRF is a collaboration between the Whatcom Museum, which maintains and disburses the funds through its foundation, and University of Washington Libraries, which preserves grantees’ research materials.