The Hertog Foundation Announces Spring 2025 Humanities at Hertog Fellows
March 4, 2025 – The Hertog Foundation announced 43 fellows for its 2025 Humanities at Hertog Spring Fellowships. Our Humanities fellows will spend March and April studying great works of literature alongside outstanding peers and a passionate teacher.
Works by Thucydides, Saul Bellow, and Booker T. Washington will anchor the three online seminars. Capped at 16 fellows, each course offers lively conversation about the fundamental human questions raised by literary texts. The seminars are fully subsidized by the Foundation, including all course materials and a stipend to support fellows’ study.
- The Humanities program is open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as young professionals.
- 130 individuals, representing 95 colleges and universities, applied for a Spring Fellowship. The average GPA was 3.62.
- Our fellows represent 33 different colleges and universities, with an average GPA of 3.81.
- Top performing institutions include Florida State University, Tufts University, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University.
Congratulations to those institutions and to all whose students were selected as fellows this year! A full list of Spring Humanities Fellows can be found below.
The Humanities program offers online seminars year-round on great texts across disciplines. Leading the effort is Dr. Mary Elizabeth Halper, Dean of the Humanities program and a tutor at St. John’s College, Annapolis. Learn more about our offerings at HertogFoundation.org.
Spring 2025 Humanities at Hertog Fellows
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Adam Bishop, University of Florida |
William Rutsch, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| Shriyam Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park | Ayuka Sinanoglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Sarah Kelly, Dallas Baptist University | Klaudia Wiacek, CUNY-Hunter College |
| Elan Kluger, Dartmouth College | Kenneth Wong, Boston University |
| John Kubinec, Cornell University |
Rosemary Xiran Zhou, Carleton College |
| Sophie Major, Ashland University |
Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War:
| Matthew John Aguilera, Florida State University | Forest Lu, University of Texas-Austin |
| Rachel Baras, Tufts University | Alexis Pye, St. Thomas University |
| Simone Chiusa, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | Dale Satre, Stanford University |
| Connor Cowman, University of Texas-Austin | Patrick Schmidt, Kansas State Senate |
| Jonus Goldstein, Florida State University | Darek Silva, Skidmore College |
| Seamus Gorman, University of Virginia | Nadege Sirot, UNC-Chapel Hill |
| Maxwell Harden, Florida State University | Alex Vermeulen, USMC |
| Hunter Keeley, Carleton College | Milan Vivanco, Yale University |
| Nathan Lee, Baylor University |
The Writings of Booker T. Washington:
| Mia Azizah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Keith Pemberton, Yale University |
| Jared Bulla, George Washington University | Alex Rosado, Gettysburg College |
| Mara Cloutier, St. Thomas Aquinas College | Ansel Smith, University of Alabama |
| Kiran Hollmann-Prichard, St. Thomas University | Tyler Turman, University of Washington-Seattle |
| Dylan Jackson, St. John’s College-Annapolis | Shreya Vikram, Dartmouth College |
| Sophia Markley, Ohio State University | Surayya Walters, University of Pennsylvania |
| Bellemy Morgan, George Washington University | Kendall Webb, Mercer University |
| Laura Nehlsen, Hillsdale College |