Scholarships
Travel Scholarships
Members of the Women’s Travel Club recognize that the world requires specific know-how and perseverance to meet today’s challenges. Every other year, the WTC Scholarship Committee is pleased to award two travel scholarships of $7,000 each to women whose interests, research, or professional goals require travel for which they lack funding. The next awards will be made in April 2026 and the application deadline will be in February 2026. Further information will be available on this site in coming months.
Eligibility
The Scholarship Committee selects candidates on the basis of the compelling nature of their projects in all the arts and sciences. The Committee looks for doable projects, solid planning, critical financial need, and relevance to the career of the applicant. Finalists will be
2018 Travel Scholars
required to make a short presentation about their project at the May 2027 Boston-area meeting of the Women’s Travel Club. There are no restrictions with regard to the age of the applicant, citizenship, education level, interest, destination, or nature of the project, but they must identify as women.
Recent travel scholars have included a PhD candidate studying chimpanzee behavior, a ministerial candidate studying nude protests by rural Nigerian women, and an applicant studying homelessness in Vatican City.
Contact: Deborah Hoover and Elizabeth Ross, 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.