Fellowships Guide - Applying for the Wilmers, World, and Lawrence: Summer Travel Fellowships

Interested Juniors should attend an information meeting, usually scheduled for November, and/or meet with a fellowships advisor before submitting applications.

Brief Description of Fellowships

The Mary and Nathaniel M. Lawrence Memorial Fellowship, in honor of Nathaniel Lawrence, Professor of Philosophy, and his wife Mary, makes relatively modest grants to support travel projects that lead to personal development. This means that a student’s project need not have an academic or primarily educational component; such projects that do would likely be more appropriate for one of the other two fellowships.

The Robert G. Wilmers Jr. 1990 Memorial Student Travel Abroad Felllowship honors Robert Wilmers, Jr. The fellowship’s grants are designed to support substantial projects involving foreign travel and study. Successful projects will normally involve 6 weeks or more abroad, and will present an ambitious intellectual program.

The Class of 1945 Student World Fellowship is the gift of those classes whose academic careers at Williams were interrupted by World War II. These fellowships support projects of travel and study abroad that aim to increase international understanding, knowledge of and concern for other cultures, and social action that forges links among countries. The donors are especially interested in supporting projects that may form the basis for a senior thesis upon the fellows’ return, but this is not a rigid criterion. Projects must be substantial in their aims, and must last at least six weeks.

For all summer fellowships, projects must take place outside of the United States. Projects must be independently planned and implemented. Awards are made to individual applicants only. Applications submitted by two or more students for joint projects will not be considered.