Meet the 2025 High School Summer Program Teaching Fellows
From June 26 until July 11, 2025, five Harvard College students will join the CHS High School Summer Program (HSSP) as teaching fellows (TFs). HSSP is organized by CHS Greece in cooperation with Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and with the support of Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and Harvard's Department of the Classics. The TFs along with the HSSP faculty members plan, coordinate, and teach the college-level seminars.
The teaching internship is structured in two phases: a spring preparation period in Cambridge, MA, followed by an intensive summer seminar in Nafplio, Greece. Each summer, program faculty, administrators, and selected Teaching Fellows (TFs) engage in daily morning sessions alongside 24 senior high school students from Greece, held at the Center's facilities. The TFs are chosen through a competitive selection process from among the University's applicants to the Teaching Internship Program.
Caroline Rubin
Caroline is a rising junior at Harvard College, originally from Naples, Florida. She is a joint concentrator in Social Studies and The Comparative Study of Religion. Caroline is interested in the intersection of law, religion, and politics in American society, with an emphasis on trends of increasing secularization and religiosity. She serves as the current Television Executive of the Arts Board at The Harvard Crimson. As a staff writer at The Crimson, she enjoys interviewing artists and writing cultural criticism. Outside of the classroom, Caroline loves touring art museums, working out, and crafting poetry.
Dailan Xu
Dailan is a rising junior at Harvard University, originally from China. She is pursuing a joint concentration in History and German, with a secondary field in European Studies. Her academic interests lie in historical theory and methodology, with a particular focus on transnational intellectual history and historiography between Europe and China at the turn of the 20th century. Her research explores the transmission of ideas and concepts across cultures, as well as the role of historical narratives in shaping nation-building and issues of continuity between empire and nation-state. Passionate about learning languages, Dailan speaks German and continues to study French and Spanish. She is an active member of Harvard's international community, promoting global engagement and academic dialogue through her leadership in the Harvard College China Forum and participation in the German-American Conference and the European Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School. Beyond academics, Dailan is a staff writer for The Harvard Crimson, and her creative writing has been featured in literary magazines. In her free time, she enjoys brewing tea, walking in nature, painting traditional watercolor, singing classical and folk music, and writing poetry.
Donald Cruse
Donald is a sophomore at Harvard College from Jackson, Ohio — a small, rural town. He is a Social Studies concentrator, and his research interests include social contract theory in contemporary Appalachia, native North American governance, and matters of human nature and fluid morality. Donald also serves as the Staff Director of The Harvard Political Review; as a writer for the HPR, he centers issues relating to rural educational equity. Beyond his academic interests, Donald is also enthralled by birds, 70s rock music (particularly Heart and Fleetwood Mac), and ‘90s rom-coms featuring Meg Ryan. Donald is a songwriter, a hiker, a poet, and a proud small-town kid.
Gowri Rangu
Gowri is a rising senior at Harvard College, concentrating in Government with a secondary in Women, Gender, & Sexuality. She is originally from Longview, Texas in a lush region known as the Piney Woods, so she absolutely loves sunshine and nature! For her senior thesis, Gowri is studying ecofeminism and the Chipko Movement, a forest conservation movement originating in Uttarakhand, India. Gowri's other academic interests include Latin American studies (she speaks Spanish!), democracy and authoritarianism, political thought, and bioethics. Outside the classroom, Gowri is the Student Director of the Harvard Undergraduate Food Security Initiative, a Food Recovery Fellow of the Food Literacy Project, and Co-Chair of the Intercollegiate Business Convention for Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business. She enjoys spending time with nature, reading for pleasure, working out, playing tennis, and making the best matcha lattes.
Hannah Duane
Hannah has one semester left at Harvard, where she studies political theory and philosophy. She is particularly interested in twentieth century attempts to understand meaning-making in the modern world and is currently working on a thesis on the role of time in Hannah Arendt's thought. She spent her first two years of college at Deep Springs, a tiny liberal arts school in the mountains of California, where she worked as a cowboy in addition to developing a love of seminar-based education. She grew up in San Francisco and when she's not in the library, she enjoys running, cooking, and hosting reading groups.