May 15, 2024 – The Hertog Foundation awarded 112 Summer Fellowships to outstanding undergraduates and young professionals to study political ideas and public policy in Washington, DC.
All fellowships include a full scholarship, housing, course materials, and a stipend to support our fellows’ study. This summer, the Foundation is sponsoring four fellowships: Political Studies, Constitutional Studies, Security Studies, and War Studies.
- In 2024, 540 individuals, representing 251 colleges and universities, applied for a Hertog Summer Fellowship.
- The average applicant GPA was 3.73.
- The Foundation selected 32 Political Studies Fellows, 23 Constitutional Studies Fellows, 39 Security Studies Fellows, and 18 War Studies Fellows.
- Fellows represent 68 colleges and universities. Top performing institutions include Harvard University (9), Yale University (5), University of Virginia (5), Tufts University (4), and Princeton University (4).
Congratulations to those institutions and to all whose students were selected as fellows this year! A full list of Summer Fellows can be found below.
Since 2010, over 1,800 students have participated in a Hertog Fellowship. An educational not-for-profit, the Hertog Foundation sponsors several highly competitive and selective educational programs for outstanding individuals who seek to influence the intellectual, civic, and political life of the United States.
Learn more about our offerings at HertogFoundation.org.
2024 Political Studies Fellows:
32 Political Studies Fellows will spend six weeks this summer studying the theory and practice of politics alongside outstanding peers and master teachers.
| Victoria Ashley, Auburn University, 2025 | Gideon Askowitz, CUNY-Macaulay Honors College, 2026 |
| Mary Blackstock, Davidson College, 2026 | Trent Bunker, Tufts University, 2025 |
| Declan Carney, Bard College, 2026 | Aurelio James Atl Castro Asmussen, Yale University, 2024 |
| Sarah Clark, St. Olaf College, 2025 | David Conway, University of Oxford, 2025 |
| George Currie, Georgetown University, 2026 | Julian Gonzalez, Yale University, 2026 |
| Wilson He, Yale University, 2023 | William Helman, Bard College, 2025 |
| Connor Johnston, Tufts University, 2024 | Maia Katsnelson, Brandeis University, 2025 |
| Seonghae Kim, Columbia University, 2026 | Emmaline Lombardo, Villanova University, 2026 |
| Cullan McHugh, College of the Holy Cross, 2026 | Muthu Meenakshisundaram, University of Minnesota-Morris, 2026 |
| Jason Milch, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 | Kellen Narke, University of Virginia, 2025 |
| Charlotte Nicholas, St. John’s College-Annapolis | Luke Ogden, University of Dallas, 2025 |
| Anna Pate, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 | Bernadette Rechek, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2026 |
| Tommy Roche, Boston College, 2025 | Jeff Schremmer, Benedictine College, 2025 |
| Margot Sellgren, University of Virginia, 2027 | Daniel Shaw, Princeton University, 2025 |
| Isabella Spanswick, University of Virginia, 2025 | Jantzen Washington, American University, 2024 |
| Jeremy Weaver, Sattler College, 2024 | Annabel Wehrle, University of Notre Dame, 2027 |
2024 Constitutional Studies Fellows:
23 Constitutional Studies fellows will study key constitutional questions and controversies, led by legal expert Adam J. White and Supreme Court advocates.
| William Barbee, Yale University, 2026 | Alicia Boretti, Saint Vincent College, 2026 |
| Blake Brawner, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 | Blake Chen, Harvard University, 2025 |
| Sherman Criner, Duke University, 2026 | John Dreiband, Princeton University, 2025 |
| Sean Fischer, Brown University, 2023 | Mihir Gokhale, University of Texas at Austin, 2026 |
| Kelly Han, University of California-Berkeley, 2022 | Thomas Juhasz, Harvard University, 2026 |
| Clara Kernodle, Harding University, 2026 | Javier Kowalchuk, University of Florida, 2024 |
| Desmond Lam, Princeton University, 2025 | Alexandra LeBaron, University of Chicago, 2024 |
| Jeff Lilley, University of Cambridge, 2025 | Dylan Mayne, Mississippi State University, 2021 |
| Tula Nicholson, Dartmouth College, 2025 | Sophia Pekkanen, Duke University, 2024 |
| John Phillips, Clemson University, 2024 | Paige Proctor, Harvard University, 2023 |
| William Reason, University of Pennsylvania, 2025 | Aidan Sheahan, University of Virginia, 2024 |
| Vincent Tsay, Washington University in St. Louis, 2027 |
2024 Security Studies Fellows:
39 Security Studies Fellows spend one to four weeks this summer studying the most pressing threats to American national security with practitioner-scholars, including former Congressman Mike Gallagher.
| Emily Alcock, Loyola University-Maryland, 2024 | Aldo Aragon, Harvard University, 2024 |
| Gray Bittker, Brown University, 2027 | Cole Caven, Stetson University, 2026 |
| Brenner Cobb, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2026 | Hannah Duane, Harvard University, 2026 |
| Cody Emerson, University of Florida, 2023 | Sarah Frankel, Ohio State University-Columbus, 2025 |
| Susanna Hoffman, Patrick Henry College, 2021 | Tori Jones, Baylor University, 2025 |
| Keren Karmiel, University of South Carolina-Columbia, 2025 | Kyle Keelan, College of the Holy Cross, 2025 |
| Will Kielm, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2023 | Siminette Kolodka, University of Georgia, 2024 |
| Gregor Kossmann, Harvard University, 2025 | Kalina Kulig, University of Richmond, 2026 |
| Vicky Lee, Wellesley College, 2025 | Kevin Lentz, Southwestern University, 2015 |
| Nikita Leukhin, Kettering College, 2025 | Connor Lewis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2024 |
| Caroline Mahony, Dartmouth College, 2025 | Max Makovsky, Muhlenberg College, 2024 |
| Henry McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, 2025 | Thomas McKenna, Hillsdale College, 2026 |
| Megan Mead, Hope College, 2024 | Austin Merkel, Texas Christian University, 2021 |
| Sophia Monte, Davidson College, 2024 | Peredur Morgan, London School of Economics, 2024 |
| Teddy Nuttall, Brown University, 2026 | Katherine Rollins, Harvard University, 2025 |
| Kyle Sajoyan, Liberty University, 2023 | Meredith Schwartz, Tufts University, 2022 |
| Matthew Sutcliffe, University of Cambridge, 2022 | Will Tinney, Temple University, 2024 |
| Eulasha Tisnovsky, Tufts University, 2025 | Zachary Turinsky, University of Oxford, 2026 |
| Arnav Vyas, Princeton University, 2027 | Kendal Walker, Georgetown University, 2023 |
| Michael White, Texas A&M University-College Station, 2024 |
2024 War Studies Fellows:
18 War Studies fellows will spend two weeks studying the theory, practice, organization, and control of war and military forces with national security leaders and senior military officers.
| Frances Brantley, University of Georgia, 2025 | Shilo Grayson, University of Oxford, 2025 |
| Cassidy Hemmers, Maastricht University, 2025 | Artem Ilyanok, Columbia University, 2024 |
| Veronica Iredale, University of Vermont, 2025 | Jackson Karas, Georgetown University, 2025 |
| Nathanael Kennedy-Leroi, King’s College London, 2024 | Piotr Kosik, University of Amsterdam, 2024 |
| Carly Lehman, Harvard University, 2025 | Benjamin Mack-Jackson, Rollins College, 2024 |
| Pranav Pattatathunaduvil, Yale University, 2025 | Phoebe Philip, Baylor University, 2025 |
| Rianna Ramsey, Arizona State University-Tempe, 2025 | Dao Tran, University of Virginia, 2024 |
| Asher Spain, Harvard University, 2024 | Pieter van Wingerden, Claremont McKenna College, 2024 |
| Andrew Weaver, Columbia University, 2026 | Caroline Weinstein, SUNY New Paltz, 2024 |