MANCHESTER, N.H. – Tessa Rae Theriault has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in classical archaeology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics from Saint Anselm College during the May 2015 commencement exercises.

Theriault graduated cum laude and was named to the dean’s list at Saint Anselm College for all eight semesters. She was a Presidential Scholar and member of the honors program. She was elected and served as Vice President her junior year and President her senior year of Saint Anselm’s Classics Society. In February 2015, she was inducted into the TAU Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma National Scholastic Honor Society. As a senior, she worked as a curatorial intern at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, N.H. and was a staff photographer for The Saint Anselm Crier, the college’s newspaper. Theriault was awarded the Etruscan Foundation 2014 Fieldwork Fellowship for her archaeology work in Castel Viscardo, Italy. She is currently in Italy working on the Castel Viscardo dig site. In the fall, she will be attending graduate school at the University of Missouri – Columbia. She is a 2011 graduate of Poland Regional High School.