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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