Javier Obregón
Spring 2026 John Jay Fellow
Hometown: Katy, TX
College: University of Dallas
Major: Politics, History, and Italian
Javier Obregón was raised near Houston and graduated from the University of Dallas, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, History, and Italian. His academic interests center on modern European intellectual history, and he wrote his senior theses on the political thought and sociology of Georges Sorel, the liberal Constitution of Cádiz, and the intellectual exchange between Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci.
During his time at the University of Dallas, he held various leadership positions, including senator and chief of staff in student government, treasurer of the Alexander Hamilton Society, and politics editor and later editor-in-chief of The Crusader Standard, an ISI publication. Most recently, he served as the President’s Office Intern at The Heritage Foundation, and before that he worked as a politics intern at CatholicVote.
As a John Jay Institute fellow, Javier is grateful and excited for the opportunity to engage with the works of great Christian thinkers in community with the other fellows, to pursue the good, the true, and the beautiful, and to further strengthen his devotion to Christ.