Alex Walthall

Alex Walthall is an archaeologist who specializes in the material culture of ancient Sicily. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. When not teaching in the classroom, Alex directs archaeological excavations at the site of Morgantina in central Sicily (www.themagazzino.org). During his time as a CHS Fellow, Alex worked on completing his forthcoming book which utilizes archaeological, numismatic, and epigraphic material as a means of documenting political consolidation and economic development in eastern Sicily from the rise of the Syracusan monarch Hieron II to the island’s absorption into the Roman Empire.