URAF: Postgraduate Traveling Fellowship Grant

URAF: Postgraduate Traveling Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Harvard University
Amount: US $30,000
Last Updated: December 26, 2025

Summary

The URAF Postgraduate Traveling Fellowship offers recent Harvard graduates funding for 9-12 months of travel, cultural immersion, and personal projects abroad. With a focus on broadening perspectives, the fellowship encourages graduates to reflect on their undergraduate experiences and explore new cultures. Approximately 15 fellowships are awarded annually, each providing $24,000 to support a year of unrestricted travel. Applicants can propose their individual goals and activities, fostering personal and intellectual growth.

Overview

Postgraduate Traveling Fellowship These fellowships provide funds to support 9-12 months of living expenses, cultural immersion, and personal or intellectual project work or activities in a foreign country in the year after graduation. The fellowships provide recently graduated students with an opportunity to “reflect on their undergraduate life in the context of a wider horizon” and to “supplement their formal education by broadening and cultivating influence which comes from acquaintance with other countries.” Fellows create and propose their own activities and goals for the fellowship year. There are four separate named fellowships, but candidates will submit their application to the group of fellowships, not to any one particular fellowship. George Peabody Gardner Fellowship Henry Russel Shaw Fellowship (Europe only) Frederick Sheldon Fellowship Bejamin A. Trustman Fellowship George Peabody Gardner Fellowship The goal of this fellowship is to provide its recipients with an opportunity to reflect on their undergraduate life in the context of a wider horizon. Most particularly, it is intended that this fellowship be helpful in opening, rather than narrowing, the range of life-long interests ultimately to be pursued. Recipients of this fellowship demonstrate a curiosity and concern about the history, habitat, and customs of cultures other than their own. Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship Shaw Fellowships are limited to European travel. The purpose of these awards is to make it possible for young [people] to supplement their formal education by broadening and cultivating influence which comes from acquaintance with other countries. The object of these awards is to benefit young [people] who, without necessarily having attained to the highest scholarship in college, have made good use of their opportunities and give promise of success. Frederick Sheldon Fellowship The Sheldon Fellowships support students of promise and good academic standing in a year of unrestricted purposeful travel abroad after graduation. The project proposal is critical and should clearly define a goal or purpose for the year’s travel. Benjamin A. Trustman Fellowship Trustman Fellowships are intended to further the education of students who show great promise of making important, long-range contributions to society by providing them with the opportunity to travel after graduation. The student’s proposal for the fellowship year is critical and should be planned with the idea of exploration and challenge as a means of personal development and enrichment. The travel proposal should present some well-defined structure to make the fellowship year a rich experience. Benefits Approximately 15 fellowships are available each year. Fellowships provide $30,000 which can be used to support one year of travel abroad.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Graduating Harvard College senior Any citizenship/residency status may apply