Welcome to Harvard Boas Scholars
History, Purpose and Background
The Harvard Boas Scholarships, which have been in existence for 50 years, are aimed to support bright and ambitious minds who seek to pursue their education at Harvard. These generous scholarships reward outstanding candidates who demonstrate, beyond academic excellence, a strong interest for cultural exchange and ambassadorial qualities. They provide financial support to scholars who have the ambition to build upon their research and education to improve society and humanity.
The Frank Boas Scholarships support people who seek to further their education and/or research at Harvard. The Frank Boas Scholarship for Graduate Study can both serve for graduate level education and for post-doctoral research at Harvard. The Frank Boas Scholarship in International Legal Studies is specifically connected to the LLM-program at Harvard Law School. As a rule, both scholarships are all-in, covering tuition and all expenses for one academic year at Harvard.
Throughout their existence, the Frank Boas Scholarships have aimed to open Harvard’s resources and the world to very talented scholars in a variety of disciplines. The programs not only aim at fostering excellence and advancing science through the best and the brightest, but also seek to support the grantees’ ambitions to improve society and humanity with their research and education. As an instrument for educational and research exchange, the Frank Boas Scholarships support the growing family of Boas scholars who have gone to Harvard in pursuit of passions and dreams that can make a difference in our increasingly international world.