Claude Harrison Jr. & Anne Nelson Harrison Fellowships
The Salvatori Center is dedicated to topics in constitutional law, American political thought and development, political philosophy, and liberal democracy, as well as public policy relative to constitutional and philosophical questions. Harrison Fellowships provide funding for students to work on their own research under the supervision of a CMC faculty member. Harrison Fellows are expected to devote an average of 40 hours per semester over the course of the academic year to their research. The Harrison Fellowship is awarded to four-to-six students and is worth up to $2,000.
Harrison Fellows 2025-26:
Aria Fafat ’27
Project: Mechanisms of Drift: Executive Appropriations of Congressional Power in U.S. Foreign Policy, examines the historical and constitutional processes through which the presidency has gradually absorbed foreign policy related powers once understood to belong to Congress, ultimately revealing a pattern of constitutional drift.
Advisor: Jenny Taw
Shivom Parihar ’28
Project: Charles Sumner: Conservative of 1776?
Advisor: George Thomas
Rachel Svoyskiy ’26
Project: Moral Visions of Responsible Citizenship. Her project explores how James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and William F. Buckley Jr. each defined the moral duties of the citizen, and how their competing visions of responsibility continue to shape American ideas of freedom today.
Advisor: Nicholas Buccola