Faculty News

Prof. Katerina Zacharia: “I am profoundly honored to have been bestowed this national award for Excellence in Teaching Classics at the University level by the most prestigious professional Society for Classical Studies founded in 1869,” said Zacharia. “As a teacher-scholar of Classics and its reception, my work interrogates classical texts and modern representations of classical antiquity in visual culture, theatrical productions and film adaptations of the ancient world, and the uses of antiquity in Greek identity formation. The SCS citation recognizes my academic and professional trajectory. It validates the directions taken for expanding our curriculum and serving our students, while it also garners prestige and recognition for our University, my academic home for the past 25 years.”

A Visit at the Etz Hayyim Synagogue and the Maleme Historical Memorial Site in Crete: Commemorating the 80th WWII Anniversary of Greek Resistance. The visit inaugurated the new LMU Jewish student internships in Hania, Crete in summer 2023.

Professor Kelly Younger, proud alum of our department, and current tenured professor in the LMU English Department, was interviewed by Department Chair Professor Katerina Zacharia in the inaugural Classics & Archaeology Alumni event on 9/7/23. The event was spotlighted in the LMU Newsroom.

Dr. Chris Gipson, proud alum of our department (Classics, 2013), and current departmental post-doctoral instructor (2021-24), was recently spotlighted in an LMU campus news article, which highlights his academic journey and research interests.

Professor Katerina Zacharia's award winning documentary "Blessings and Vows" was recently published on YouTube on December 31st, 2021, along with three articles about the film which were published by the peer-reviewed journal Ergon.

A conversation on Creativity and Collaboration with Blood of Zeus Netflix Anime series creators Charley & Vlas Parlapanides, moderated by LMU Professor of Classics Katerina Zacharia.

Professor Katerina Zacharia co-moderated "A conversation with Harry Mavromichalis, director of the documentary Olympia (2018)”, with Associate Professor of Film, TV & Media Studies, Carla Marcantonio. The event was a tribute to Oscar-winning Greek-American actress Olympia Dukakis, and was hosted by Prof. Bryant Keith Alexander, Dean of Communications and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean of the School of Film & Television.

Professor Katerina Zacharia offers her insights on the origins of theatre and the emergence of a new theatre for the 21st century for the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, her long-term collaborators who hosted her global immersions Greek Tragedy in performance course from 2016-18.

Read about Dr. Caroline Sauvage's role as the Chair of Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Director of LMU's Archaeology Center

In the spring of 2021, Prof. Matthew Dillon (Emeritus) released a series of 15 audio lectures on the ‘Axial Age’ (roughly 700-200 BCE). During this period, the great cultures of China, India, Persia, Israel and Greece produced—almost simultaneously!—many of their greatest geniuses, who left behind a legacy of religious ideas, philosophy, literature and art that still stand as monuments in world culture. For more information, please contact Matt Dillon.