Even though Margaret Culuris-Harp (M.A., ‘24) is nearing completion of a first M.A. in art history, she is already looking ahead at her next scholarly enterprise: continuing her studies at Hebrew University with a Fulbright Fellowship. Maggie, who specializes in late Roman art history and archaeology in both the Levant and North Africa, will pursue interdisciplinary research in archaeology, art history, Jewish studies and religious studies to better understand the cultural spaces of these regions. At UC Davis, Margaret received a research grant for travel to Beit Alfa and the Israel Museum to conduct on-site research for her MA thesis “The Beth Alpha Zodiac Wheel, a Jewish Iconographic Reaction to Roman Rule and Jewish Literature.” Using both apocryphal and canonical Hebrew literature, she connected descriptions of David and the divine to the visuals within the Beit Alfa synagogue. She will pursue an M.A. in archaeology and the ancient Near East at Hebrew University of Jerusalem to expand upon her interest in Jewish material religion from the Second Temple Period.