Nationally Competitive Hertog Summer 2025 Fellowships Awarded
May 6, 2025 – The Hertog Foundation awarded 97 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, Security Studies, Constitutional Studies, and War Studies.
- In 2025, 817 individuals, representing 286 colleges and universities, applied for a Hertog Summer Fellowship.
- The average applicant GPA was 3.72, and the average accepted fellow GPA was 3.81.
- The Foundation selected 32 Political Studies Fellows, 20 Constitutional Studies Fellows, 25 Security Studies Fellows, and 20 War Studies Fellows.
- Fellows represent 68 colleges and universities. Top performing institutions include American University (4), Havard University (4), University of Notre Dame (4), and Georgetown 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 2,000 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.
2025 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.
| Sara Anderson, George Washington University, 2027 | Chloe Baldauf, American University, 2025 |
| Riley Bauer, Catholic University of America, 2025 | Isabelle Brady, UC Santa Barbara, 2025 |
| Marta Bystrowska, Catholic University of America, 2026 | Sophia Calkins, Dartmouth College, 2028 |
| Gabriel Cao, Columbia University, 2025 | Eli Celeste-Cohen, Central European University, 2026 |
| Thianna Chisholm, Williams College, 2027 | Daniel Chung, Tufts University, 2025 |
| Luke Dale, Oxford University, 2025 | Abigail Davis, Hillsdale College, 2025 |
| Camila Eljuri, Bowdoin College, 2027 | Alison Eng, University of Texas-Austin, 2025 |
| Conrad Farinola, University of Chicago, 2024 | Summer Haura, University of Florida, 2027 |
| Amishai Goodman-Goldstein, American University, 2025 | Eleanor Hornok, Wheaton College, 2026 |
| Tyler Holbrook, American University, 2026 | Jennifer Melia, University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, 2026 |
| Izabella Martin-Kovacs, University of Padova | Elizabeth Mitchell, University of Notre Dame, 2027 |
| Stevie Miller, Carnegie Mellon University, 2027 | John Widener Norris, University of Georgia, 2026 |
| Gavin Monk, Texas A&M University, 2025 | Nicholas Reason, UC San Diego, 2027 |
| Siddhu Pachipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2026 | Henry Sanders, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2028 |
| Sarah Rietz, Pepperdine University, 2025 | Zachary Welch, Wheaton College, 2024 |
| Elizabeth Whelan, University of Virginia, 2027 |
Kevin Zhong, Yale University, 2025 |
2025 Security Studies Fellows:
25 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 and CENTCOM commander Gen. (ret.) Frank McKenzie.
| Angelina Braese, Georgetown University | Ashley Burgess, Clemson University, 2026 |
| Elsa Burgesser, Colorado State University, 2026 | Thaddian Burson, Cedarville University, 2025 |
| Alexa Cohen, Davidson College, 2027 | Aston Davies, Stanford University, 2028 |
| Alexis Eskenazi, UC Berkeley, 2027 | Jack Evans, Washington & Lee University, 2025 |
| Derek Fyksen, Harvard University, 2028 | Lucas Gabrieli, US Naval Academy, 2024 |
| Eli Glickman, UC Berkley, 2025 | Seamus Gorman, US Department of Homeland Security |
| Anna Kriebel, University of Virginia, 2025 | Jazper Lu, Duke University, 2024 |
| Miles Manney, US Military Academy, 2026 | Ansley Marsh, Duke University, 2027 |
| Jack Morris, Biola University, 2026 | Christian Pedro, Amherst College, 2026 |
| Maria Proulx, Dartmouth College, 2026 | Zoe Raptis, Tufts University, 2026 |
| Maximillian Salem, University of San Diego, 2025 | Carter Spawn, Hampden-Sydney College, 2025 |
| Bryan Suh, University of Pennsylvania, 2025 | Maya Wong, Hunter College, 2024 |
| Zachary Wong, Northrop Grumman |
2025 Constitutional Studies Fellows:
20 Constitutional Studies fellows will study key constitutional questions and controversies, led by legal expert Adam J. White and Supreme Court advocates.
| Joshua Bishop, Brigham Young University, 2025 | Kevin Bizily, University of Notre Dame, 2027 |
| Juliana Castillo, Columbia University, 2025 | Charlotte Cross, Clemson University, 2025 |
| Lia Dino, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2027 | Robert Giola, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2027 |
| Amia Guha, University of Cambridge, 2026 | Tamás Boldizsár Hajas, Eotvos Lorand University, 2024 |
| Grace Hopkins, Georgetown University, 2026 | Cameron Howard, Emmanuel College, 2025 |
| Josie Iino, University of Cambridge, 2026 | William Mahoney, Yale University, 2027 |
| Matthew Malec, Boston College, 2023 | Alice Messiah, University of South Florida, 2027 |
| Fayga Pinczower, Yeshiva University, 2026 | Aneesh Swaminathan, Johns Hopkins University, 2027 |
| Ethan Szumanski, South Texas College of Law-Houston, 2021 | Sophia Thomason, Arizona State University, 2026 |
| Vivian Turnbull, Hillsdale College, 2025 |
Ryan Wilson, American University, 2026 |
2025 War Studies Fellows:
20 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.
| Abigail Bergen, Duke University, 2026 | Amar Bhandal, University of St. Andrews, 2025 |
| Bea Bolongaita, Boston College, 2026 | Ella Braunfeld, Georgetown University, 2025 |
| Kendall Carll, Harvard University, 2026 | Blake Chen, Harvard University, 2025 |
| Devin Crawford, Vanderbilt University, 2027 | Margaret Dean, Kenyon College, 2025 |
| Samantha DeCosta, UC Berkley, 2025 | Zvi Fermaglich, Reichman University, 2026 |
| Kathryn Haertzen, University of Notre Dame, 2027 | Julia Hinman, University of Notre Dame, 2027 |
| Piper Holland, Stanford University, 2025 | Matan Lieberman, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2026 |
| Noa Ní Aoláin Gross, Yale University, 2026 | Ford Pitts, Georgetown University, 2027 |
| Tetiana Trach, Hope College, 2026 | Thomas Ye, Amherst College, 2025 |
| Peggy Yin, Harvard University, 2025 | Oleksandra Zadesenets, University of Glasgow, 2026 |
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