Luka Pavikjevikj ’27 is a resident of Quincy House, originally from Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. He is pursuing a double concentration in History and Government with a citation in German. Pavikjevikj is an undergraduate associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He serves as research assistant to Professor Gary Gerstle at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute and is a member of the History Leadership Council.
He joined the Intellectual Vitality Committee in order to advocate for establishing academic freedom and institutional neutrality as the University’s key values that would underpin and allow intellectual vitality to take place. To borrow the words from “The True Harvard” speech delivered by William James in 1903 – which Pavikjevikj quoted in his admissions essay –, Harvard’s “tolerance of exceptionality and eccentricity” and its “devotion to the principles of individual vocation and choice” are what makes it exceptional.