The Hertog Foundation Announces 45 Fellows for the Fall 2024 Humanities at Hertog Fellowships
This October, 45 outstanding individuals will join the Hertog Foundation’s Fall 2024 Humanities at Hertog program. Selected from a highly competitive pool, these fellows will delve into some of history’s most thought-provoking texts under the guidance of passionate instructors who share a deep love for the humanities.
This Fall’s virtual seminars will explore the works of Benjamin Franklin, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and William Shakespeare. With a cap of 15 participants per seminar, each course is designed to spark lively discussions around the enduring human questions these texts raise. The Foundation fully subsidizes each course, providing all necessary materials and a stipend to support the fellows in their studies.
- This year, we received 200 applications from applicants representing 120 colleges and universities, with an average GPA of 3.73.
- The selected 45 fellows, who hold an average GPA of 3.79, come from 42 distinct institutions.
- Among this cohort are students and young professionals from institutions like American University, Duke University, Harvard University, Kenyon College, and Wheaton College.
We congratulate these institutions and all those whose students were chosen to participate this Fall. A complete list of Fall Humanities Fellows is provided below.
The Humanities program is open to undergraduates and graduate students, as well as young professionals. Looking ahead, the Humanities program will offer four courses on classic and modern texts. Seminars will include Middlemarch with Christopher Scalia, Hope Against Hope with Jacob Howland, How to Live in a Cosmic Vacuum with Benjamin Storey and Thomas Chatterton Williams, and The Sun Also Rises with Cheryl Miller. The application for the Winter session opens on October 1st. The deadline for these online courses is November 11, 2024.
Learn more about our offerings at HertogFoundation.org.
Fall 2024 Humanities at Hertog Fellows
The First American: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Rita Koganzon:
| Carson Becker, University of Virginia, 2023 | Bailey O’Donnell, Texas Wesleyan University, 2024 |
| Francis de Beixedon, Duke University, 2023 | Nicolo Pastrone, American University, 2025 |
| LyLena Estabine, Harvard University, 2024 | Angela Shen, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 |
| Cameron Farvin, University of Southern Mississippi, 2025 | Colly Urdan, University of Notre Dame, 2026 |
| Chloe Hoyle, Barnard College, 2026 | Kirsten Vega, California Humanities |
| Henry Keating, Mercer University, 2024 | Zachary Welch, Wheaton College, 2025 |
| Lilit Klein, University of British Columbia | Joshua Yasmeh, University of Chicago Law School |
| Murphy MacDonald, American University, 2025 |
The Gulag Archipelago with Flagg Taylor:
| Katrina Byrnes, Regent University, 2026 | Roy Humlicek-Spindler, University of Minnesota-Morris, 2024 |
| Umang Dhingra, Duke University, 2026 | Max Makovsky, Muhlenberg College, 2024 |
| Will Fletcher, University of Florida, 2025 | Barna Peterfi, University of Edinburgh, 2025 |
| Jeth Fogg, Yale University, 2027 | Samuel Rechek, University College London |
| Rachel Friedman, Emory University, 2025 | Bradford Richardson, Ralston College |
| Jessica Garlock, Patrick Henry College, 2024 | Peter Rocco, Deloitte |
| Nathan Heath, National Security Innovations | Ethan Russo, Loyola University Maryland, 2026 |
| Thomas Huckans, Williams College, 2026 |
| Wilson Bailey, Colby College, 2027 | Tommy Johnson, Teachers College, Columbia University |
| Bat-Orgil Batjargal, Oracle Retail Labs | Christopher Paludi, AEI Critical Threats Project |
| Elizabeth Choi, Harvard University, 2027 | Anna Palumbo, American University, 2027 |
| Grace Cunningham, St. Thomas University, 2026 | Cooper Sunderland, University of Georgia, 2026 |
| Zoë Grimm, Intercollegiate Studies Institute | Levi Wojtalik, Benedictine College, 2025 |
| Micah Hoffman, Cornell University, 2023 | Isabella Youssef, CUNY-Hunter College, 2026 |
| Emma Jaax, Abilene Christian University, 2024 | Kelvin Yu, The Foundation for American Innovation |
| Joshua Janniere, New College of Florida, 2025 |