May 2024

Meet three of our grant recipients who presented their senior theses at CES: Logan Kelly, Gordon Ebanks, Julia Tellides (from left to right)

During their time at Harvard College, Nicole Fintel, Logan Kelly, Andy Wang, and Julia Tellides were active members of our community. They enhanced their understanding of Europe by leveraging CES programs and attending many of our events. Their post-graduation plans speak to their strong intellectual commitment to and affinity for Europe. Congratulations to all our undergraduate associates. We wish you the best for your future and stay in touch!

Julia was featured as a stellar graduate of the Class of 2024 for her senior thesis on Thessaloniki’s politically active Jewish residents during a period of upheaval in the early 20th century.

Her research took her to Greece where she conducted archival research with support from CES as well as the Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of the Classics.

Julia was awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, for which she was nominated by her thesis supervisor, CES Resident Faculty Derek Penslar.

What's Next:

Julia will move to Greece to be an English Language teacher.

Henry Haimo

We applaud the following undergraduate associates who received a Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for their senior theses which were supported by CES:

• William Brown – ‘The System of Deed’: On the Political Philosophy of Friedrich Julius Stahl

• Henry Haimo – Rewriting History: Education, Publishing, and Media in Ghana, 1945–1966

• Justin Hu – Studying with Césaire: Caribbean Counter-Pedagogies of the Lycée Victor Schœlcher during the Third Republic, 1870–1945

• Logan Kelly – Immoral Medicine: A Comparative Study of Religious Influence on Drug Policy in Portugal and Spain

• Julia Tellides – Defending ‘the Jerusalem of the Balkans’: Resilience and Disempowerment in Interwar Jewish Thessaloniki

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