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The Junior Summer Fellowship program enables selected juniors pursue an independent, immersive project in the summer between 11th and 12th grade. Fellows extend and enhance their knowledge beyond the boundaries of the traditional classroom in destinations around the world. Successful projects will have a well-defined focus and purpose that may be academic, artistic, athletic, cultural, or creative.

A committee of current upper school faculty will award a maximum of seven $4000 fellowships to current 11th grade students. An outstanding fellowship proposal will describe a unique and immersive experience that will broaden and deepen the student’s understanding of themself and the world. While this usually involves travel, that is not a requirement.

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NOTE: The application packet is only accessible to those with a Harvard-Westlake email account.
QUESTIONS: Contact Jim Patterson, Director of the Kutler Center.

2024 Junior Summer Fellows:

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Samuel Cleland

Jazz in The Big Easy: Conducting Not So Easy Discussions about Race and Jazz in its Birthplace of New Orleans

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Sasha Antonia Gadalov

Assimilation in Alaska: Old Believers and the Evolution of Their Identity

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Ashley Ham

Uncovering the Ancient Korean History of Pottery

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Saisha Kumar

The Continued Reform Efforts Following the Criminal Tribes Act on the Gujjar Community in Mumbai, India

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Shiara Navarro

The Mayan Train: The Environmental Impacts of Expanding Cultural Tourism in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

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Anaya Olivas

30 Years Post Apartheid: Life as a "Coloured" Girl in South Africa

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Arielle Trakhtenberg

Two Years Gone: Lives of Ukrainian Refugees in Krakow

2023 Junior Summer Fellows:

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Leo Craig

Coal, Gas, and Transmission Lines: The Energy Transition Playing Out on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation

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Zoe Fribourg

Weaving the Social Fabric of the Philippines: The Survival of Ancient Filipino Textiles

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Diego Sebastian Godoy

Pok-ta-pok and Lacrosse: Ritual, Power, Life, and Death in Indigenous Sport in the Yucatan Peninsula and North America

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Iona Yunhee Lee

From Poverty to Entrepreneurship in Mwika, Tanzania: The Effects of Microfinance on Rural Women in Africa

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Jack Solomon Limor

Recovering the History of Mediterranean Jews: A Comparative Study of The Islands of Cyprus, Crete, Malta, & Sardinia

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Arely Monterroso

The Growing Reach of Education In Guatemala

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Peijin Wu

Single-Room Occupancy Units (SROs) in San Francisco: Examining the Chinese Immigrants’ Living Condition and Debunking the Model Minority Myth