During my summer in 2024, I attended a field school through College Year in Athens, called Excavating in the Aegean: The Despotiko Field School. Located near the islands of Paros and Antiparos in the Cyclades, it was a prominent site during…

In the course, Rise of Athens, which I completed in Fall 2024, we covered the history of Ancient Greece from the Late Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Period. My final paper for this course was titled “The Economic and Cultural…

In the spring of my Junior year, I went to College Year in Athens (CYA), studying abroad for the semester. I chose to study with CYA because of the breadth of archaeology and Classics courses offered every semester and the unique Field Studies…

During my semester abroad in Spring 2025 through College Year in Athens, I had the opportunity to intern through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), at their location within the Athenian Agora…

In the course ARCH-331, Archaeological Drawing, through College Year in Athens, I spent the semester learning the fundamentals of drawing various pottery vessels and shards, as well as lithics. We began the semester with the fundamentals…

For the course, Aegean and Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology, which I took during the Spring 2025 semester, I created a poster presentation for my final assignment. We were able to choose any topic that we were interested in, and I chose to…

This past semester, I’ve been working on completing my Capstone Project for the Classics Major. I decided to complete this assignment within my Seminar in Latin Prose course, in which we read the Agricola by Tacitus, both in Latin…

Beginning this portfolio was a challenge. Not because I didn’t want to create the website or look back on my work and reflect on each item, but because unlike most other Classics seniors, the majority of my work in the major has been through…