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The Center for Freedom and Western Civilization has announced its Summer Research Fellows for 2025. This year’s fellows were honored at a dinner May 6 at the 51���� Inn with their faculty sponsors and members of the External Advisory Board.

2025 James Madison Fellows

Jeremiah Bauer ’26     

“Russia’s Patronage of Global Authoritarianism”

Faculty Sponsor: Jessica Graybill, professor of Russian & Eurasian Studies

James Conrad ’25

“The Education of Alexander the Great”

Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Tober, assistant professor of the Classics

Alexander Di Napoli ’26 

“Deterrence and Diplomacy: South Korea’s Response to a Nuclear North and a Divided Indo-Pacific”

Valerie Morkevičius, associate professor of political science

Benjamin Haber ’25

“Assessing the Military-Industrial Complex: Do Defense Contracts in Wartime Serve National Security or Business Interests?”

Faculty Sponsor: Ed Fogarty, associate professor of political science

Emma Hanlon ’27

“Rhetoric and Power: Exploring the Expansion of Executive Authority in the Bush and Trump Administrations”

Faculty Sponsor: Annie Benn, assistant professor of political science

MG King ’27

“The Role of Umbrae (ghosts/shades) in Lucan’s Poem on Civil War, Pharsalia”

Faculty Sponsor: Geoffrey Benson, associate professor of the Classics

Jordan Maxham ’26 

“Media Ecosystems and the Asymmetric Rise of the Populist Right in Europe”

Faculty Sponsor: Dominika Koter, associate professor of political science

Amy Meng  ’26 

“A Comparative Study of Reformed, Pentecostal, and Catholic Theologies”

Faculty Sponsor: David Dudrick, George Carleton Jr. Professor of Philosophy

Olivia Pascione ’26

“Freedom vs. Security: Reconciling Civil Liberties and Nuclear Strategies”

Faculty Sponsor: Fred Chernoff, Harvey Picker Chair of International Relations

London Pettibone ’27

“Affective Polarization, Partisanship, and Democracy: The Rising Threat of Lone-Wolf Terrorism”

Faculty Sponsor: Danielle Lupton, associate professor of political science

Peyton Taylor ’27

“Reviving Trust in American Journalism through the Proper Use of Polling”

Faculty Sponsor: Matt Luttig, associate professor of political science

Callen Tortolani ’26

“Environmentalism in the US and Australia: The Role of Constitutional Foundations, Free Enterprise, and Individual Freedom in Shaping and Implementing Environmental Policies”

Faculty Sponsor: Priscilla Van Wynsberghe, associate professor of biology

Alice Walton ’26

“Economic Freedom and Labor Dynamics in Great Britain's Industrial Revolution”

Faculty Sponsor: Chad Sparber, W. Bradford Wiley Chair in International Economics

2025 International Security & Intelligence (ISI) Summer Program Recipients 

Sawyer Brown ’25

William Keiser ’27