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

 

Alexander Hughes ‘25

Alex Hughes ('25) of Marshall, Michigan concentrates in Government at Harvard College. He is interested in defense policy and the political theory of republican citizenship. He is the editor-in-chief of the Salient, Harvard's student-run conservative magazine, which works to promote open debate and intellectual rigor on campus. He is also the president emeritus of the Harvard Republican Club.

 

Katie Miri ‘25

Katie is a Harvard undergraduate studying computer science and evolutionary biology. She is particularly interested in Catholic social teaching and the writings of the saints. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and watching science fiction.

 

Blake Chen ‘25

A Harvard concentrator in chemistry and a cadet in Air Force ROTC, Blake is interested in history, public policy, and politics. He enjoys reading Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell and admires the statesmanship of Calvin Coolidge.

 

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.

 

Gabriel Margolies, BC ‘27

Gabriel is an undergraduate studying philosophy, theology, and political science at Boston College. Outside of class, he is a leader of the St. Thomas More Society at BC and a former fellow with the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton. In his free time, he enjoys good books, rigorous discussions, and classical music.

 
 

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.

 

Scarlett Rose Ford

Scarlett Rose Ford is a current Master of Theological Studies candidate at Harvard University. She previously attended the University of Alabama, where she received her B.A. in English and Religious Studies. In the interim between degrees, Scarlett Rose did editorial work in Vatican City, where she developed her current research on the history of Eastern Catholicism and trends within American Catholicism. While pursuing her M.T.S., she works as a news correspondent for Harvard Divinity School, a graduate assistant for Religion and Public Life, and a contributing writer for the Catholic publication Aleteia. When not writing, Scarlett Rose enjoys reading, baking, knitting, praying, and ambling around Cambridge.

 

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

 

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.

 

Suan Sonna

Suan Sonna is a Master of Theological Studies student in the New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. He received his B.A. in philosophy and political science at Kansas State University. His current research focuses on the intersection of ancient Jewish law, ethics, and authority structures with early Christianity, including within the life of the historical Jesus. His other interests include the historical and scriptural Peter, Jerome and the episcopacy in the early church, the theological value of the historical critical method, Aristotelian metaphysics, and Thomistic moral theory.

 

Dallas Terry

Dallas is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory at Boston College. His dissertation focuses on the political-philosophical debates surrounding the birth of the public schools in 19th century America. Dallas has taught courses at BC, Harvard, and the Tikvah Scholars Program. He has been a mentor to first-generation college students for four years through BC's McNair Scholars Program, and he is currently a Teaching Fellow for BC's John Marshall Project, where he cultivates cross-partisan discussions about our contemporary civic challenges. Prior to graduate school, Dallas was an English teacher for four years at a public high school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This on-the-ground experience as an ordinary teacher in an ordinary school continues to inspire and orient his scholarly inquiries as a political theorist. Dallas is a lover of life, and he feels blessed to be here.

 

Jason O’DwyeR

Jason O’Dwyer graduated from Boston College, Class of 2022, with a dual degree in economics and philosophy. He serves his community as a member of the Knights of Columbus and through local community organizing. He works as a legal clerk in Boston and currently studies at Boston College Law School.

 

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.

 

Gonzalo Cervantes

Gonzalo Cervantes is an MBA candidate at Babson College, interested in digital platforms, strategy, and product development with a concentration in Business Analytics and Machine Learning. He brings global experience, having developed and led projects in Argentina, Canada, Kenya, Mexico, the US, and Peru. His professional background spans social innovation, strategy consulting, public policy advisory for small governments, and academia, where he made his mark as an undergraduate communications management professor. Demonstrating a commitment to social impact, Gonzalo founded an NGO in 2025 focused on enhancing children's reading skills. Additionally, he pioneered a startup aimed at improving learning experiences for children during the pandemic, showcasing his innovative approach to education and technology. Gonzalo is very interested in pizza, a good talk, and new technology trends.

 

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.

 

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.