2024 Edition

Academia Tocqueville 2024 Students

Elayne Allen

Elayne Allen is a PhD student in political theory at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that, she worked in Washington, DC for several years and was the managing editor of Public Discourse.

Jawaid Beg

Jawaid Beg is a Transportation Officer in the United States Army who has been stationed in Kaiserslautern, Germany for the past three years working in strategic logistics by providing munitions and combat vehicles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD with a B.A. in Liberal Arts (2020). He is interested in the history of political philosophy, strategy, military history, and diplomatic history.

Anthony Falcone

Anthony Falcone serves as Operations Manager and Research Assistant at Napa Legal. Tony graduated summa cum laude from The Catholic University of America in December 2021 with a B.A. in Politics and a double minor in Philosophy and Theology. While in college, he held internships in the U.S. House of Representatives and at Susan B. Anthony List.

Colette Kania

Colette Kania is a recent graduate from the University of Florida with a dual degree in Economics and Education Sciences with a concentration in schools, society, and policy. She is presently a City Year AmeriCorps member and is planning to work for the District of Colombia Public Schools in a central office before she pursues a doctoral degree in character education.

Henry Stephan

Henry Stephan is a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Joseph, studying political philosophy at Notre Dame.
He graduated from Princeton University with a A.B. in Politics. His research focuses on questions of civic friendship, particularly how it can unify and form citizens virtuously.

Matthew Venoit

Matthew Venoit is a graduate student in foreign policy at Georgetown University, focusing on global politics and security. He received his BA from Pennsylvania State University and his MA in Philosophy from KU Leuven. His research interests include sovereignty and statehood, political identity, and IR theory.

Victoria Baker

Victoria Baker is a junior studying the intersection of Computer Science, Politics, Literature, and German Studies at Cornell University. She is fascinated by how people communicate, and enjoys creating interdisciplinary projects relating to technology and the humanities.

Zachary Coddington

Zachary Coddington is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Notre Dame focusing on constitutional studies and political theory. He received his BA in government and classics from Bowdoin College. His research interests include political foundings and revolution, political myth, and church-state relations.

Irene Gonzalez-Hernandez

Irene Gonzalez-Hernandez is a PhD student in Political Philosophy at Universidad Anahuac. Her research interests include the Catholic intellectual tradition, the interaction between faith and public life, the role of the laity, and conservative political thought. She is preparing a thesis on Pierre Manent’s critique of modern anthropology and human rights. She has participated in several civic, social, and cultural initiatives regarding youth formation in the Archdiocese of Mexico, enjoys doing missionary work, and is a collaborator in SPES magazine. She holds a B.A. in Law from Universidad Panamericana and a Master of Public Policy from DePaul University.

Sophia Love

Sophia Love is a master’s student studying Management Science & Engineering at Stanford. As an undergraduate she studied Economics and Computer Science (also at Stanford), was a Junior Fellow at the Zephyr Institute, and studied abroad in Florence, Italy. She will be returning to her hometown of Dallas, Texas, to work in consulting after graduation this spring.

Jared Stone

Jared Stone is a student at Princeton University studying politics with minors in history and classics. He has served as chairman of Princeton’s conservative debate society and president of the school’s pro-Israel student organization. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, he enjoys reading, hiking, and spending quality time with family and friends.

Marcos Barrios

Marcos Barrios, a Florida native, holds a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale University. His senior thesis offered a conservative critique of the use of religion in contemporary social capital theory. His interests include American theo-political thought, Russian language and culture, and classical music performance. He has completed fellowships with the Buckley Institute, Hudson Institute, and most recently, the John Jay Institute. He plans to pursue studies in law, focusing on First Amendment protections of religious liberty.

Vincent D’Angelo

Vincent D’Angelo is a PhD Student in Political Philosophy at Hillsdale College, interested in Christian responses to postmodernism. As an undergraduate, he was a double major in political theory and philosophy at Wabash College in Indiana.

Alex Hu

Alex Hu is a Marshall Scholar reading for an MA in War Studies at KCL. His current research focuses on understanding the bedrock assumptions of the post-WWII international system. He recently graduated from Yale, where he studied intellectual history as a Humanities major.

Aimee Morrissey

Aimee Morrissey is a recent graduate from the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science and classics. This fall, she will begin work as a strategy associate at the Penta Group in Washington, D.C. She plans to attend law school in the near future.

Deniza Toma

Deniza Toma is a graduating senior at Arizona State University studying Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership with a certificate in Politics Philosophy and Economics. She completed the American Enterprise Institute’s Summer Honors Program in DC, titled “Living The Good Life: The Human Person and Liberal Education.” Previously, she interned at the Arizona Supreme Court, The Fund for American Studies, and The Family Research Council.

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