Scholarships
Travel Scholarships
The Women’s Travel Club (WTC) was established in 1934 "to promote intelligent travel and exploration by women” and "to provide help to other women travelers.” Today, the WTC has over 60 members, primarily in the Greater Boston area. Every other year, the Club’s Scholarship Committee awards two travel grants of $7,000 each to support women who are passionate about a particular project, a research interest, or a personal or professional goal that requires travel. The next Travel Scholarships will be awarded in April of 2028 for projects to be completed no later than May of 2029.
2018 Travel Scholars
Eligibility
The Scholarship Committee selects candidates based on the compelling and life-enhancing nature of their projects, whether in the arts, humanities, or sciences. Eligible candidates must identify as women and have a strong interest they want to pursue that requires travel. There are no restrictions as to destination, interests, academic background, or age of the applicant; however, we will not support travel to conferences.
The two Scholarship awardees will be required to describe their proposed projects in person at a meeting of the Women’s Travel Club in May of 2028. Awardees will also be required to present a report, in person, about their projects at a meeting in May of 2029. Both of these meetings will take place in the Boston area.
Previous Travel Scholars have included an applicant studying homelessness in Vatican City, a PhD candidate studying chimpanzee behavior in Uganda, a ministerial candidate studying nude protests by rural women in Nigeria, and an applicant studying Italian jewelry techniques in Florence.
Application
Updated application material can be found on this page in late 2027.
Contact: Co-Chairs, WTC Scholarship Committee <WTC.travel.scholarships@gmail.com>
All Women’s Travel Club records, including records of Travel Scholars, ultimately reside in the Archives of Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.