Rubina Raja#
| Membership Number: | 6237 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/rubina.raja@hum.au.dk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1387-874X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015, August - present Professor (chair), Classical Archaeology and Art, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2015, February - present 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
- 2012, December - 2015, July Professor (with special assignments), Classical Archaeology and Art, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2009, September - 2012, November Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology and Art, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2007, October - 2009, August Postdoctoral fellow, Classical Archaeology, Department for Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2005, October - 2007, September Postdoctoral fellow, Classical Archaeology, Institut für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des antiken Mittelmeerraumes, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Illicit trafficking of cultural goods
- Cultural heritage
- Field archaeology
- Eastern Roman Empire
- Classical archaeology
- Archive studies
- Mediterranean
- Rome
- High Definition archaeology (interphase between classical archaeology and archaeological sciences)
- Iconography
- Longue Durée perspectives on cultural and societal developments (Hellenistic to Medieval times)
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Her Majesty Queen Margrethe’s Rome Prize (Hendes Majestæt Dronning Margrethes Romerske Pris), The Danish Academy in Rome
- 2019 Dansk Magister Forenings forskningspris (The Danish Union of Academic's Research Prize for outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences)
- 2018 Kershaw Lecturership, awarded by the Archaeological Institute of America, USA
- 2015 Elected Member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2015 - 2021 Member of The Young Academy of Europe
- 2015 Distinguished Lecturer in the Human Sciences, awarded by the Max Planck Society, Berlin/Munich, Germany
- 2015 Tagea Brandt’s award for female researchers, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2015 Elite Research Prize, awarded by the Danish Council for Independent Research/the Ministry for Higher Education and Science, Denmark
- 2014 Silver medal and prize award, awarded by The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2011 - 2015 Member of the Young Academy, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark (president, 2012 – 2013)
