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Randall D. Souza, PhD
Associate Professor, History
Biography
I grew up in western Massachusetts, where two fantastic high school teachers introduced me to Latin and the ancient Roman world. I majored in Classics at Amherst College and spent a semester abroad in Rome (the ICCS, better known as the Centro), which exposed me to archaeology and history in an immediate and compelling way. So while I still enjoyed ancient languages and literature, I started to work and volunteer on archaeological projects, and went on to study history and archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, where I received my Ph.D. in 2014. My interests lie at the intersection of human mobility (e.g., migration, displacement, etc.) and group dynamics (e.g., citizenship, belonging, etc.) in the ancient Mediterranean, and my research has focused on Sicily as a site of particularly significant interactions. I have worked extensively with the archaeological excavations at Morgantina in Sicily, and I am currently preparing a book manuscript on Sicilian mobility and citizenship in the fourth and third centuries BCE. I joined the History department at Seattle University in 2017.
Education
- Ph.D. 2014, University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. 2009, University of California, Berkeley
- B.A. 2005, Amherst College
Courses Taught
- History (HIST) 1200 Constructing Past & Present I
- History (HIST) 3010 The Roman Republic
- History (HIST) 3020 The Roman Empire
- History (HIST) 3910/3030 Migration and Citizenship in the Ancient Mediterranean
- History (HIST) 4040 Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean Research Seminar
- Honors (HONR) 1210 Polis, Republic, and Empires
- Honors (HONR) 1220 From Polis to Subject to Citizen
- University Core (UCOR) 1400 Citizenship in the Roman World
- Latin (LATN) 4960 Independent study
Publications
In preparation
- Souza, R. (2025). Built environment in late Punic and early Roman Sicily. In F. De Angelis, A. Molinari, & N. Nicholson, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Ancient Sicily. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Souza, R. (2025). Refugee-exile itineraries and contingent migration in ancient Sicily. In C.A. Thomsen, M.R. Møller, P. Vadan, and S. Neumann (eds.) Moving the Ancient Greek World.
Forthcoming
- Walthall, D.A., Schirmer, C., Souza, R., and Truetzel, A. (2024). Excavating Morgantina’s Missing Centuries: The Agora Valley Project, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 69.
Recent publications (since 2020):
- Souza, R. (2024) Entella: a resilient ancient Sicilian community. American Journal of Archaeology 128.4: 493–525.
- Souza, R. (2024) The community of practice: an elegant framework for archaeological interpretation. Humans 4.2: 183–191.
- Souza, R. (2023). Citizenship in the Classical and Hellenistic western Mediterranean. In J. Filonik, C. Plastow, & R. Zelnick-Abramovitz, (eds.) Citizenship in antiquity: civic communities in the ancient Mediterranean, pp. 433–460. London: Routledge.
- Souza, R. (2022). More new readings of Hellenistic Sicilian real estate contracts involving women. Zeitschrift fūr Papyrologie und Epigraphik 223: 71–81.
- Walthall, D.A. and Souza, R. (2021). Sortition in Hellenistic Sicily: New Archaeological Evidence from Morgantina. American Journal of Archaeology 125.3: 361–390.
- Schirmer, C., Walthall, D.A., Tharler, A., Wueste, E., Crowther, B., Souza, R., Benton, J., and Millar, J. (2021). “Preliminary Report on the 2018 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP).” Fasti On Line Documents & Research 500: 1–24.
- Tharler, A., Walthall, D.A., Wueste, E., Schirmer, C., Crowther, B., Benton, J., Souza, R., and Huemoeller, K.P.D. (2020). Preliminary Report on the 2017 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP). Fasti On Line Documents & Research 487: 1–23.
- Souza, R. (2020). Enslavement and Redemption in Classical Sicily. In M. Jonasch (ed.) The fight for Greek Sicily: Politics, Society and Landscape, pp. 57–72. Oxford: Oxbow.