Henry McDaniel is a Benjamin Franklin Scholar majoring in Russian and Eastern European Studies and Diplomatic History. He is a Hertog Foundation Security Studies Fellow. His current thesis research focuses on how the War in Ukraine is changing the nature of European Union accession in the Western Balkans. In 2023, he was awarded a Global Research Internship grant to study wine, heritage and hospitality at a world renowned winery in Porto, Portugal. In 2022, he completed an internship at the Penn Museum's Center for Cultural Heritage, where he helped create a database being used to track the destruction of cultural heritage sights in Ukraine. McDaniel also spent time learning Russian in Narva, Estonia on a National Security Language Initiative for Youth.
