The Hertog Foundation Announces Winter 2024 Humanities at Hertog Fellows
January 3, 2024 – The Hertog Foundation announced 60 fellows for its 2024 Humanities at Hertog Fellowships. Our Humanities fellows will spend their January studying great works of literature alongside outstanding peers and a passionate teacher.
Works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, and the Romantic poets will anchor the four online seminars. Capped at 15 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.
- 230 individuals, representing 142 colleges and universities, applied for a Winter Fellowship. The average GPA was 3.72.
- Our 60 fellows this year include a Nigerian physics student awarded a Presidential Scholarship by Villanova University, a professional ballet dancer with the Indianapolis Ballet, a Fulbright Scholar from Canada studying at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a national debate champion at Hillsdale College.
- Our fellows represent 47 different colleges and universities, with an average GPA of 3.82.
- Top performing institutions include Hillsdale College, University of Texas-Austin, Harvard University, and Stanford University.
Congratulations to those institutions and to all whose students were selected as fellows this year! A full list of Winter Humanities Fellows can be found below.
This year, the Foundation will expand the Humanities program to offer 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.
Dr. Halper will offer an online seminar next Spring on Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad. Humanities at Hertog will also offer a course with acclaimed novelist and journalist Boris Fishman on creative non-fiction writing and politics. The deadline for these online courses is January 15, 2024.
Learn more about our offerings at HertogFoundation.org.
2024 Humanities at Hertog Fellows
Dostoevsky’s Crime & Punishment:
| Parker Briggs, Columbia University, 2024 | Alexander Neave, U.S. Bank |
| Logan Gillenwater, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2023 | Irene Parsuf, AIPAC |
| Abraham Hersh, Jerusalem College of Technology, 2026 | Benjamín Rascon Gracia, University of Notre Dame, 2024 |
| Israel Ingber, University of Chicago, 2028 | Mia Li Rodriguez, University of Texas, 2025 |
| Cody Johnson, Houghton University, 2024 | Jacob Sundel, Yeshiva University, 2024 |
| Edward Koval, Benedictine College, 2024 | Eliana Yang, Juilliard School |
| Bohan Lou, Tome | Moxin Nancy Yu, Center for Strategic Translation |
| Robert Mack, Indiana University, 2023 |
| Blake Brawner, University of Texas, 2024 | Ben Morgan, St. John’s College Graduate Institute |
| Dylan Jackson Brintwood, Kenyon College, 2024 | Deniz Morova, Swarthmore College, 2024 |
| Emily Burden Rees, ACTA | Owen Schmidt, Transylvania University, 2026 |
| Aidan Foucher, Loyola Marymount University, 2024 | Yuyao Felix Sun, College of the Holy Cross, 2024 |
| Ella Norah Geiger, Deep Springs College, 2025 | Jessie Tagliani, MIT |
| Thomas Huska, Harvard University, 2026 | Kuropatkin Tawil, University of Texas |
| Emily Jones, Hillsdale College, 2024 | Julia Zhou, Princeton University, 2024 |
| James Kirchick, journalist |
| Moboluwagbe Adesanmi, Villanova University, 2024 | Charlotte Nicholas, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2024 | |
| Julia Dan, Harvard University, 2026 | Maria Proulx, Dartmouth College, 2026 | |
| Michael Donelan, University of Notre Dame, 2025 | Bernadette Rechek, University of Minnesota, 2026 | |
| James Fraley, Princeton University, 2026 | William Rosenberger, Ohio State University, 2023 | |
| Kamran Haq, Skidmore College, 2026 | Isabella Spanswick, University of Virginia, 2025 | |
| Mishel Jovanovska, Bard College Berlin, 2025 |
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| Muthu Meenakshisundaram, University of Minnesota-Morris, 2026 | Emma Zuder, Seton Hill University, 2024 | |
| Aimee Morrissey, University of Notre Dame, 2024 |
| Victoria Avanesov, University of Pennsylvania, 2026 | Jacob Ladner, Utah State University, 2024 |
| Andre Brilliant, Stanford University, 2024 | Jonathen Loxley, Regent University, 2025 |
| Rebbie Davis, Howard University, 2025 | Patrick McDonald, Hillsdale College, 2026 |
| Ainsley Dean, New York University, 2024 | Sara Rex, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 |
| Kaila Hall, Cornell University, 2025 | Nicholas Rosenbaum, Stanford University, 2024 |
| Mary Christine Helms, Furman University, 2026 | Aletheia Underhile, Dakota Wesleyan University, 2025 |
| Adrian Joseph, University of Cape Town, 2022 | Zev van Zanten, Duke University, 2026 |
| Coltrane Joseph, Bowdoin College, 2023 |