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 to be eligible for all scholarships. In addition, there are program-specific scholarships for Comparative Literature, French, Global Studies, and Italian, some of which require an additional short application. For all scholarships requiring that you be a declared major or minor within a program, there is still time to declare your major or minor and then apply!
Roy Arthur Swanson Merit Scholarship in Comparative Literature: to be eligible, students must be full-time undergraduates, majoring or minoring in Comparative Literature with a 3.5 GPA in Comparative Literature courses. View in the portal.
Martha Best/Martine Meyer Scholarship: to be eligible, students must be full-time undergraduates with demonstrated financial need who are enrolled in French coursework; majoring or minoring in French is not required, but preference is given to students intending to be a French teacher. View in the portal.
Leah Fetter Merit Scholarship: to be eligible, undergraduate students must be French majors with demonstrated financial need who will be participating in one of UWM’s study abroad or exchange programs in a French-speaking country. View in the portal.
Emmaneuelle Leah Fetter Memorial Scholarship: to be eligible, undergraduate students must be French majors, enrolled full-time, with demonstrated financial need. View in the portal.
Mariele Schirmer Scholarship in French: to be eligible, undergraduate students must be French majors, enrolled in at last 9 credit. View in the portal.
Ian J. Elliott Memorial Scholarship: to be eligible, undergraduate students students must be a Global Studies or International Studies major with a minimum 2.5 GPA who will be studying abroad or completing an overseas internship in summer or fall. View in the portal.
Giovanni Carini Memorial Scholarship: to be eligible, students of any major must be accepted into an approved study abroad experience in Italy. View in the portal.