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Hey there! I'm Eli.
I grew up in Shelburne, Vermont (a little town with a big teddy bear factory), but my home in Oberlin is Harkness Co-op, where I've lived since my freshman year. OSCA is one of the things that drew me to Oberlin, and I love living in a house full of cuddly pirates and vegan cinnamon buns! As this year's All-OSCA Education Coordinator, I earn my keep by training new members, organizing events, and generally committing random acts of co-operation.
I'm studying archaeology ("wait, you can do that here?" Yup, we have an archaeology major), with a heavy dose of Greek and Latin. This means I mostly bounce back and forth between Art History and Classics, objectively the coolest departments at Oberlin. I'm particularly interested in object conservation, and the applications of chemistry to archaeology. I spent last summer doing field work in Italy with Prof. Susan Kane's Sangro Valley Project, and will happily ramble about Roman tile typologies... though probably not on this blog (lucky you).
When I'm not co-oping or digging things up, I work with the Trans Advocacy Group, go to contra dances, play Javanese percussion in the gamelan ExCo, hang out at the Multicultural Resource Center, and plot the triumphant return of Radio Free Association! (the Winter Term show I co-DJ'd on WOBC).
