Students Intern at LA Greek Film Festival
16 Loyola Marymount University students interned at the LA Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) this spring, through classics professor Katerina Zacharia’s “Representations of Greece: Ancient and Modern” course. Student interns collectively watched over 160 films and assisted…
Archaeology Center featured in The Argonaut
The 2,800-year-old sarcophagus of Nes-Khonsou, Keeper of the Storehouse, keeps watch over the library and museum of Loyola Marymount University’s Classics & Archaeology Department. In adjacent rooms on the third floor of University Hall,…
Holocaust Survivors on their Lost Childhoods
By André Enriquez ’17 and Beth McLaughlin ’17 It often takes the mind of a child to open our eyes to the simple, subtle, and yet significant realities of the world. Unfortunately, though, it also…
Alumna, Professor Help Tell the ‘Story of God’ with Morgan Freeman
“What can you do with a classics degree?” said Amir Hussain, professor of theological studies. “Well, you can work for Morgan Freeman.” Annelise Baer ’07 put her classics major to work as a researcher…
Global Immersions Take Liberal Arts to Cuba, Ukraine and Beyond
This semester, the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts sent six Global Immersion Courses on spring break trips abroad to Cuba, England, Greece, Northern Ireland, and Ukraine. Each of these on-campus classes included a week-long…
Alumni Spotlight: Angelo Mercado ’96
Angelo Mercado ’96 graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Marymount University with a B.A. in classics. He went on to earn a master’s degree in Latin and his Ph.D in Indo-European Studies at UCLA. He is currently…