Student Fellows

AAI student fellows are selected for their exceptional commitment to holistic intellectual exploration, community-building, and alignment with AAI’s mission of promoting truth-seeking, values-driven humanistic inquiry. Fellows act as ambassadors for AAI and have access to our vibrant network and wealth of institutional resources and opportunities.

Undergraduate Student Fellows

 

Thomas Juhasz ‘26

Thomas is a Harvard College undergraduate studying classics and computer science. He enjoys Thomistic philosophy, loves learning new languages, and performs with various chamber and orchestral ensembles in the greater Boston area.

 

Anna Linder ‘27

Anna Linder concentrates in Applied Mathematics with the area of application in Government at Harvard College. She is interested in geopolitical strategies and has worked on Critical Raw Material policy at the European Commission. Anna is also the Managing Director of External Initiatives at Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners where she organizes the annual startup competition Innovation Fund.

 

Caleb Chung ‘27

Caleb studies Economics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard College. Originally from Colorado Springs, he is the editor-in-chief of the Salient and a ministry team leader with Harvard Undergraduate Faith and Action. His interests include religion, political theory, and international development.

 

Sofia Mikulasek’26

Sofia is an undergrad at Harvard studying Philosophy with a minor in Comparative Literature. She is interested in the nature of meaning, understanding, and grammar--particularly as it relates to the use and ethics of technology. Her favorite authors include Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, and Jorge Luis Borges. An alum of Deep Springs College, she is well acquainted with the trials that come with self-governance and the importance of learning how to speak well.

 

Luis Cardenas ‘27

Luis Cardenas studies Government and Classics at Harvard College. He is interested in political philosophy, statecraft, and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Originally from South Texas, his policy work focuses on border relations, natural resources, and the oil industry.  He currently serves as Fellowship Chair of the Harvard Catholic Center and a writer for the Salient.

 

Luka Pavikjevikj ‘27

Luka Pavikjevikj is a junior at Harvard College, pursuing a double concentration in History and Government. Originally from Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, his primary academic interests are intellectual, constitutional and political history, in addition to political theory and the study of polytheistic religions. Empirically, he focuses on the history of the early American republic.

 

Peini Feng, BC ‘26

Peini is an undergraduate studying political science at Boston College. He is particularly interested in the political implications of different metaphysical stances, and whether revelation is necessary for the best kind of life.

 
 

Graduate Student Fellows

 

Mathis Bitton

Mathis Bitton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Government Department studying political theory and intellectual history. His interests include Chinese political thought, liberalism and its critics, the politics of technology, and democratic theory. His current work focuses on techno-critical writings in the Western and Chinese traditions. Before graduate school, Mathis co-founded a cybersecurity start-up and received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College.

 

Sergio Leos

Sergio Leos is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. He studies the relationship between Spain and the Americas in the sixteenth century and the knowledge generated by the people and processes linking both regions. Sergio is a graduate of Princeton University's Department of History and Program in Latin American Studies.

 

Dean Sherman

Dean Sherman is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School.  He previously attended the College of William & Mary, where he received his B.A. in International Relations with an emphasis on China and international security.  His interests include history and political theory, and his current legal studies focus on trial and appellate litigation.  When not studying, Dean enjoys hiking, rock climbing, martial arts, and reading fiction, especially the works of Joseph Conrad.

 

Elizabeth Burns

Elizabeth Burns is a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard University studying the influence of religion on American Law. She received her bachelor’s degree in 2023 from Christopher Newport University in Classical Studies and Philosophy. Elizabeth is passionate about studying the intellectual foundations of America’s founding documents, reading primary sources from classical antiquity in their original Greek and Latin

 

Trevor Bormann

Trevor is a Ph.D. student in the Materials Science department at MIT, where his research focuses on developing new methods of high-throughput alloy development, with a particular emphasis on materials for the plasma-facing components in fusion reactors. Before coming to the East Coast he attended the South Dakota School of Mines where he received degrees in Metallurgical Engineering and Computer Science. Outside of his research, Trevor is an avid winter hiker and enjoys reading and discussing literature, especially the works of Plato.

 

Kate Whitaker

Kate Whitaker is a Master of Theological Studies candidate in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean at Harvard Divinity School. She primarily focuses on public religious ceremonies, like weddings, funerals, and sacrifices, in Greece and Rome. Kate completed her B.A. in Classics, Religious Studies, and Law, Letters, and Society (LLSO) from the University of Chicago in 2023. Between college and graduate school, she worked for the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, where she organized speaker events and led seminars on ancient myth and philosophy. In her free time, Kate enjoys painting, baking, and brewing mead.

 

Reed Morgan

Reed Morgan is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department (Harvard University) where he studies the history and archaeology of cultural contact between Byzantium, Islam, and the West in Late Antiquity. His dissertation will focus on Justinian's reconquests and the Umayyad conquest of Spain and North Africa. Before Harvard, he majored in Archaeological Studies (Yale '17) and obtained MPhil degrees in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Archaeological Research at Cambridge University (2017-2019). At Harvard, he has been a Teaching Fellow in The New Science of the Human Past and The Crusades.

 

Jacob Joyce

Jacob Joyce is a Ph.D. candidate in the Philosophy Department at Boston University. He holds a M.A. in Philosophy from Duquesne University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Roanoke College. His research focuses on Eighteenth Century Continental Rationalism, with special focus on the intersection of metaphysics, theology, and ethics in that tradition. Outside of his narrow research interests he enjoys cycling, reading Aquinas, and having conversations with friends.

 

Anton Njavro

Anton Njavro is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science Department at Boston University. His research is in the domains of Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems, with the goal of building both theoretical and practical frameworks needed to design safe and predictable computing systems. His interests also include the history and philosophy of Computer Science, along with World History; with a special focus on the history of his home country Croatia.