Hunter College senior Maya Wong is one of 15 undergraduates and young professionals from across the nation selected by the Hertog Foundation for its prestigious virtual spring seminar “China Beyond Beijing.”
“We congratulate Maya Wong on her selection to this rigorous and fascinating course of study,” said the director of Hunter’s Ruth & Harold Newman Office of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships.
The online course, part of the foundation’s Security Studies Program, provides fellows with a strategic introduction to the massive Communist nation, immersing them in primary source materials and open-source intelligence tools. Fellows receive full scholarships and a stipend.
The Hertog Foundation is the family foundation of Hunter alumna Susan Hertog ’65, a historian and freelance journalist, and her husband, Roger, a retired financier. The Hertogs have been generous donors to Hunter’s Creative Writing MFA Program, which has a fellowship named for them.
The Hertog Foundation offers highly competitive and selective educational programs in the Humanities, Political Studies, Constitutional Studies, and War & Security Studies for “outstanding individuals who seek to influence the intellectual, civic, and political life of the United States.”
Wong, a Mellon Foundation Fellow at Hunter, is the fourth Hunter student to be selected for a Hertog Foundation program in the past three years. The others are Meaghan Mcclure ’22, a Hertog War Studies Program fellow; Gideon Askowitz MHC ’26, selected for a Summer Fellowship, and Jacob Harvey ’24, who attended a winter Hertog program on Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
All four students were helped in their applications by the Office of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships, which has a stellar track record in preparing students for many different kinds of competitive scholarships and fellowships. In recent years, the college has produced two Rhodes, two Marshall, six Schwarzman, five Luce, seven Goldwater, and 39 Fulbright Scholars among many other prestigious awardees.
