The Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards opportunity is seeking proposals for fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of human social and cultural variability. The program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. The 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. Some key points to consider include: • The 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.