Apply now for 2024-2025 scholarships in all of our programs!

Applications for all scholarships within the Department of Global Studies  are due within the UWM Panther Scholarship Portal are on Friday, March 1. Please make sure to complete the general application and upload a transcript showing your grades for Fall 2023 …

Exciting Summer Study Abroad Opportunities Await! 

Are you ready for an enriching experience? Discover the world and earn credit in French, Global Studies, or Italian through our faculty-led study abroad programs. Check out the details of each program below: Act fast! The application deadline is March …

Pickering-Iazzi in Netflix’s How to Become a Mob Boss

Congratulations to Prof. Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Italian and Comparative Literature), who was interviewed as part of the Netflix docuseries How to Become a Mob Boss, which was released November 14, 2023. Look for her multiple appearances in episode 3, “Dominate Through Terror,” …

Momcilovic Discusses Zombies on Central Time

  On October 23, Dr. Drago Momcilovic (Comparative Literature and Global Studies) was a guest during the call-in show “Central Time” on the Ideas Network, answering questions about COMPLIT 135, Experiencing Literature in the 21st Century: Zombie Metaphors, as well …

Pickering-Iazzi in conversation on her latest translation

On September 20, Prof. Robin Pickering-Iazzi had the opportunity to engage in a lively online conversation of her translation of Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s Tina, Mafia Soldier with Chiara Durrazini (Boston Italian Theater Company), Juliet Grames (Soho Press), and Cutrufelli through I Am …

Join the Global Student Alliance!

The Global Student Alliance is a student organization of both undergraduate and graduate students with a mission to cultivate a vibrant and inclusive community of students dedicated to fostering global awareness, cross-cultural understanding, and sustainable change within our college campus …

2023 UWM Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Congratulations to all of the 2023 inductees to Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society from UWM, including those from the Department of Global Studies:

Congratulations to the 2023-2024 RASCL Scholarship recipients!

Congratulations to Tabitha Lindstrom and Abby Schroder, the 2023-2024 recipients of the Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature! We are so happy to have you both in the program as minors, and delighted to be able to support …