Rubina Raja - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 2005 DPhil (oxon), Classical Archaeology, The Classics Faculty/School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, England (Internationalization PhD fellowship, the Danish Research Council)
- 2000 M.St, Classical Archaeology, The Classics Faculty/School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, England
Current positions
- 2015 Professor (chair), Classical Archaeology and Art, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2015 Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
Previous positions
- 2012 - 2015 Professor (with special assignments), Classical Archaeology and Art, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2009 - 2012 Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology and Art, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral fellow, Classical Archaeology, Department for Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Commissions of trust
- 2020 Founder and executive committee member of the national network initiative Women of the Year in Academia, Denmark
- 2020 Board member of the Doctorate School in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and Cultures. Historical Research, Preservation, Cultural Heritage Management and Use. Scuola Superiore Meridionale di Napoli, Italy
- 2019 Scientific board member of the Excellenz Cluster ROOTS, Kiel University, Germany
- 2017 Member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Collegium de Lyon, University of Lyon
- 2017 Member of the managerial board of the international network Impact of Empire
- 2015 Board member, Dialogues with the Past, the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology
Recent fellowships & guest professorships
- 2019 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
- 2018, 06-09 Villa scholar, The J. P. Getty Museum, Malibu, USA
- 2018, 03-04 Guest professorship, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
- 2014 - 2015 Guest professorship at Max-Weber-Kolleg for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany
Supervision and teaching
2009 - Supervisor of 20 postdocs, 16 PhD scholars and 18 master students (theses), School of Culture and Society/Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University, Denmark; Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany; Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Institutional responsibilities
- 2014 - Member of the review committee for fellows at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2014 - Member of the departmental research committee, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2014 - 2015 Head of the PhD programme for History, Archaeology and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
Research expeditions/fieldwork expeditions
- 2017 PI and director of the international research and excavation project Excavation of the Forum of Julius Caesar in Rome, Italy, together with Dr. Jan K. Jacobsen, Danish Institute in Rome and Dr. Claudio Parisi Presicce
- 2011 - 2018 PI and director of the international excavation project The Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project, Jordan, together with Prof. Dr. Achim Lichtenberger, University of Münster, Germany
Major contributions to early careers of excellent researchers (since 2013)
- 2017 Partner to the ERASMUS+ project Ancient Cities: Creating a Digital Learning Environment on Cultural Heritage (AnCit) on digital teaching/learning
- 2015 - Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet)
- 2014 - 2015 Head of the PhD programme for History, Archaeology and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2013 - Mentor in the Empower Talent programme – female academics talent mentoring scheme, Aarhus University, Denmark