John Aroutiounian Fellows
The John Aroutiounian Fellowship (JAF), the flagship student fellows program of the Abigail Adams Institute (AAI), is designed for select undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to holistic intellectual exploration, community-building, and alignment with AAI’s mission of promoting truth-seeking humanistic inquiry.
The Fellowship honors John Aroutiounian, a brilliant young scholar whose deep faith, intellectual passion, and generous spirit left a lasting impact on everyone he met.
Undergraduate Fellows
Thomas Juhasz, Harvard College ‘26
Thomas is a Harvard College undergraduate studying classics. He enjoys Thomistic philosophy, loves learning new languages, and performs with various chamber and orchestral ensembles in the greater Boston area.
Caleb Chung, Harvard College ‘27
Caleb is a junior at Harvard studying Economics with a secondary in Comparative Religion. Originally from Colorado Springs, he is the publisher of the Ichthus, Harvard's journal of Christian thought, and serves on executive leadership for Harvard Undergraduate Faith and Action. He is also a research assistant at Harvard's Human Flourishing Program. Caleb's interests include Biblical studies, political theory, and international development.
Luis Cardenas, Harvard College ‘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 energy, natural resources, and corporate-government relations. He currently serves as Fellowship Chair of the Harvard Catholic Center and holds a Masthead position for the Salient.
Luka Pavikjevikj, Harvard cOLLEGE ‘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. In 2025 he was a Harvard-Cambridge Summer Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Anna Linder, Harvard College ‘28
Anna Linder is a student at Harvard College concentrating in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Government. She works on quantitative methods to reduce infant mortality within the MedTech sector. Her experience spans policy and finance, including roles working on Critical Raw Material policy at the European Commission, in real estate private equity, and as a Managing Director at Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners.
Richard Rodgers, Harvard College ‘28
Richard Rodgers studies History and Medieval Studies at Harvard College. His primary interests are political philosophy, theology, and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Originally from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he is the Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Salient, Harvard’s undergraduate journal of conservative thought. He also currently serves as fellow at the Harvard Catholic Forum, where he teaches on Catholic social and political teaching. Before Harvard, he served in the United States Navy as a journalist.
Isabel Hogben, harvard College ‘29
Isabel Hogben is a freshman at Harvard College. Originally from Pasadena, California, her interests include intellectual history, literary journalism, and aesthetics.
Peini Feng, Boston College ‘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.
Kevin Hopkins, Boston University ‘26
Kevin Hopkins is a senior at Boston University studying history and English. He is originally from Princeton, New Jersey, and plans to pursue a career in law after graduation. In addition to his university studies, he has a strong interest in literature and architecture.
Ruofan Wang, Wellesley College ‘27
Ruofan Wang is a junior majoring in Art History at Wellesley College. Originally from Beijing, China, Roufan is currently in the process of exploring how to combine her academic passion for art and her personal interest in nature. She hopes to become a museum/gallery curator or researcher in the future. In her spare time, she enjoys learning Catholic theology and new languages.
Graduate Fellows
Sergio Leos, Harvard History PHD ‘26
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.
Kate Whitaker, Harvard Divinity School MTS ‘26
Kate Whitaker is a second year MTS student at Harvard Divinity School in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. She works on myth and ritual in Greece and pre-Roman Italy, and she is primarily interested in sensory experience of food in religion. Outside of school, Kate is an avid baker, painter, and enjoyer of reality TV.
Dean Sherman, HARvard Law School, JD ‘26
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.
Reed Morgan, Harvard History PHD ‘27
Reed Johnston Morgan became a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard History Department in the fall of 2019. He received his B.A. in Archaeological Studies from Yale University, and M.Phil. degrees in Archaeological Research and Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge. Reed is interested in textual, archaeological, and scientific approaches to the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. His research focuses on environment, migration, and community (religious, political, and ethnic) in the late antique Western Mediterranean, especially Iberia and North Africa in the period 400-750, under the Vandals, Visigoths, Byzantines and Umayyads. He is organizing a paleogenomic study of population dynamics in ancient North Africa. He has worked on excavations in Scotland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Morocco, and Egypt. He is also interested in the development of Christian doctrine, and currently working on a project on the Three Chapters Controversy.
Michael Egan, Harvard Bioethics MS ‘27
Michael Egan is a Master's of Bioethics Candidate at Harvard Medical School, focusing on neuroethics in clinical healthcare. He received a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Maryland, College Park. Outside of his studies, Michael works for the Hippocratic Society, which focusing on providing moral formation to doctors and students across the U.S. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, cooking, soccer, and literature, especially the works of C.S. Lewis.
Mathis Bitton, Harvard Government PHD ‘28
Mathis Bitton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Government Department studying political theory and intellectual history. His interests include the politics of technology, Chinese political thought, liberalism and its critics, and democratic theory. His current work focuses on the history of Prometheanism. Before graduate school, Mathis co-founded a cybersecurity start-up and received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College.
Elizabeth Burns, Harvard Law School, JD ‘28
Elizabeth is a first year J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S.), where she focused on the influence of religion on American law. She has served as a Research Assistant at the Harvard Law School Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies and as a Student Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute. Elizabeth holds a B.A. in Classical Studies and Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Christopher Newport University. Her academic work centers on the intellectual foundations of American legal thought, with particular interest in classical texts in their original Greek and Latin.
Brianna Mirabile, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ‘28, MIT School of Management MBA ‘28
Bri Mirabile is a dual Master in Public Policy and Master in Business Administration student at the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to coming to Cambridge, Bri worked in government consulting helping the firm and her state government clients solve their most pressing strategic issues. In her free time, Bri enjoys reading, cooking, and bourbon tasting.
Fred Larsen, Harvard Government PHD Candidate
Fred Larsen is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory in Harvard's Department of Government. Inspired by Plato and Rousseau, he is interested in the relation between politics, music, and philosophy, particularly in the role of music and aesthetics in Ancient Greek thought and its reception in modern political theory. His research interests include ancient political philosophy, its reception in the development of liberalism, and the political philosophy of foreign policy. Fred is presently the Harold Laski Fellow in the Government Department. He holds an A.B. in Government from Harvard College.
Adam Ziccardi, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry STM ‘26
Adam Ziccardi is pursuing a Master's Degree in Theological Studies at the Boston College School of Ministry and Theology. Adam began school at Cornell University in Mechanical Engineering, but transferred into Religious Studies after living in a Zen monastery in Japan and performing in an orchestra in the Dolomites of Italy for a month. While at Cornell, he researched the ecological impact of pilgrimage and tourism. His current research focuses on the development of Catholic theology from Gregory the Great to Aquinas.
Ryan Worth, Boston College Philosophy MA ‘26
Ryan Worth is currently a M.A. student studying philosophy at Boston College. He is particularly interested in Kant and Romanticism. He previously attended Brigham Young University, where he received his M.A. and B.A. in comparative literature with an emphasis in Spanish, Italian, and Latin literatures. In his free time, he enjoys being in the mountains skiing and hiking with his wife Chelsea and their Bernedoodle puppy named Benjamin Franklin.
Anton Njavro, Boston University Computer Science PHD ‘27
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.