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Anna Tullie '24 (Sociology major with minor in Classics and Archaeology) and Tanya Rasheesa '25 (majors in English and Classics and Archaeology) spent their summer working as interns at the Etz Hayyim synagogue in Chania, Crete, Greece. Etz Hayyim is currently the only active synagogue in the island of Crete. It was revived and rededicated over fifty years after the Nazi German deportation of the island's Jewish community during the World War II.

Clara Goolsby ’24 has spent the majority of her undergraduate career at LMU preparing for a career in the cultural heritage field. As a biochemistry and classics and archaeology double major, she has developed an understanding of the chemical processes that artifacts undergo as they age and how best to preserve objects in their current condition in order to sustain the historical record. She has also gained an ability to build a historical narrative from material culture. Goolsby’s background and upbringing lend her an affinity for storytelling and examining cultural perspectives.

Clara Goolsby ’24 is a biochemistry and classics and archaeology double major originally from Texas. In the spring of 2023, Goolsby received a Citi Bank funded internship at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Conservation Center in the Conservation Research department. Her experience working with Dr. Caroline Sauvage in LMU’s Archaeology Center and working with Dr. Ryan Hunt in his physical chemistry lab were instrumental in her preparation for the internship duties. Her experience with understanding historical narrative through material culture and the experiences provided to her by the Classics and Archaeology department gave her a larger understanding of the importance of a reference collection to conserving a collection.

In 2022, David Eisman was named the LMU Classics & Archaeology program scholar. David completed his capstone thesis entitled “Greeks, Romans, and Nazis: Erasures, Omissions, and Commemorations”, under the supervision of Prof. Katerina Zacharia. After graduation, David aims to work as an animatic editor at an animation studio, and “to make short films and feature films that showcase the power and importance of traditional, hand-drawn 2d animation.” David received the LMU O’Neil Endowed Classics award with a $500 monetary award, which he aims to invest in the making of his first animation film.

Recently many of our majors and minors attended a performance of "An Iliad" at the A Noise Within Theater, and a performance of "Lizastrata" at the Getty Villa

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