Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• Have current full-time status at IU Bloomington or in an IU-administered or IU-co-sponsored overseas study program
• Be pursuing a B.A. or B.F.A. degree in an eligible major (see below) in the College of Arts and Sciences
• Be a current third-year student with junior standing, planning to graduate at the end of the next year’s spring or summer term
• Maintain full-time enrollment (minimum 12 credit hours) for both semesters of the next academic year at IU Bloomington or in an IU-administered or IU-co-sponsored overseas study program
• Have high academic merit, including a minimum College of Arts and Sciences GPA of 3.750 (past recipients have had College GPAs of 3.900 and higher)

Eligible majors

Students with the following majors are eligible for this scholarship:

• Classical studies
• Comparative literature
• East Asian languages and cultures
• English
• Fine arts (art history or studio art)
• Folklore and ethnomusicology
• French and Italian
• Germanic studies
• History
• India studies
• Near Eastern languages and cultures
• Philosophy
• Religious studies
• Slavic languages and literatures
• Spanish and Portuguese
• Theatre, drama, and contemporary dance

Students with the following majors can be considered eligible if the humanities form the focus of the student’s coursework, research, career plans, and application materials:

• African American and African diaspora studies
• American studies
• Anthropology
• Central Eurasian studies
• Communication and culture
• Cultural studies
• Eighteenth-century studies
• Gender studies
• Individualized Major Program
• International studies
• Islamic studies
• Jewish studies
• Latin American and Caribbean studies
• Latino studies
• Medieval studies
• Renaissance studies
• Southeast Asian studies
• West European studies