The Hertog Foundation Announces 60 Fellows to Winter 2025 Humanities at Hertog Courses
This January, 60 exceptional individuals will join the Hertog Foundation’s Winter 2025 Humanities at Hertog program. Chosen from a competitive pool, these fellows will engage with some of history’s greatest texts under the guidance of dedicated instructors who share a deep passion for the humanities.
This Winter’s virtual seminars will explore the works of Ernest Hemingway, George Eliot, Blaise Pascal & Albert Camus, and Nadezhda Mandelstam. 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 185 applications from applicants representing 88 colleges and universities, with an average GPA of 3.81.
- The selected 60 fellows, who hold an average GPA of 3.84, come from 65 distinct institutions.
- Top applicant majors included Political Science, English, Philosophy, Economics, History, and International Relations.
- Among this cohort are students and young professionals from institutions like St. John’s College-Annapolis, Wheaton College, Clemson University, and Samford University.
We congratulate these institutions and all those whose students were chosen to participate this Winter. A complete list of Winter 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 three courses on classic and modern texts. Seminars will include Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, and The Writings of Booker T. Washington. The applications for the Spring 2025 program are due on January 13th, 2025.
Learn more about our offerings at HertogFoundation.org.
Winter 2025 Humanities at Hertog Fellows
Middlemarch with Christopher Scalia:
| Jacob Akey, Saint Anselm College, 2024 | David Norcross, Catholic University of America, 2027 |
| Bradley Berklich, University of Virginia School of Law | Abigail Nordell, Biola University, 2026 |
| Parker Brown, Regent University School of Law | Sarah Parasca, Arizona State University-Phoenix, 2024 |
| Charles Dang, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2024 | Blaze Ras, College of the Holy Cross, 2025 |
| Ashley Dowdney, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2026 | Sophia Thomason, Arizona State University-Tempe, 2026 |
| Jordan Kammeyer, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2025 | Molly Tompkins, University of Texas-Austin, 2026 |
| Ifan Peredur Morgan, London School of Economics, 2024 | Anna Zikova, New School, 2026 |
| Alexander Neave, Loyola University-Maryland, 2019 |
Hope Against Hope with Jacob Howland:
| Peter Biles, Writer & Editor | Jacob Payne, Samford University, 2025 |
| Sophie Brown, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 2027 | Alexandra Price, Consultant |
| Sarah Chew, Samford University, 2025 | Henrik Schildt Lundberg, Georgetown University |
| Miles Gendebien, Tufts University, 2026 | Bonnie Scott, University of Chicago Divinity School |
| Dolan Kay, University of Dallas | Joshua Sprinkle, Wheaton College, 2027 |
| Veronika Khomukha, Ashland University, 2027 | Alexander Taylor, University of Dallas |
| Emy Julianna Pablico, Abilene Christian University, 2024 | Emma Varichio, Research Analyst |
| Arina Paniukhina, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 |
How to Live in a Cosmic Vacuum with Benjamin Storey and Thomas Chatterton Williams:
| Anji Been, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sabrina Manero, Duke University, 2028 |
| Sam Borne, Bowdoin College, 2026 | Jack Naylor, Wheaton College, 2027 |
| Lauren Collins, St. John’s College-Annapolis | Allen Porter, Rice University |
| Maria Cordero, Tulane University, 2025 | Zane Rivers, Boise State University, 2025 |
| Aliza Fassett, Tulane University, 2024 | Matthew Schule, Manhattan University, 2025 |
| Seven Franklin, Baylor University, 2024 | Nazmiye Isik Tutuncu, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2026 |
| Catherine Gangemi, Clemson University, 2022 | Alexander Zhang, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 2025 |
| Elizabeth Hale, University of California-Santa Barbara |
The Sun Also Rises with Cheryl Miller:
| Kensea Aaron, St. Thomas University, 2027 | Izabella Martin-Kovacs, University of Padova |
| Brigid Alvis, Clemson University, 2025 | Mark Mateo, Bowdoin College, 2026 |
| Parth Sarthi Bajaj, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2024 | Juan Morillo, University of Central Florida, 2025 |
| Abigail Beus, Brigham Young University-Provo, 2025 | Sasha Peterson, St. John’s College-Annapolis, 2026 |
| Robert Clawes, University of Virginia, 2024 | Richard Sims, Washington University in St. Louis, 2023 |
| William Kelly, University of Pennsylvania, 2026 | Christina Szerszen, Catholic University of America, 2027 |
| Zachary Lacy, University of Texas-Austin, 2027 | Alice Zhang, George Mason University, 2026 |
| Adam Louis Sebastian Lehodey, Columbia University, 2025 |