Raquel Rubio González

I hold a European Ph.D. in History and Archaeology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), having been awarded the qualification of Sobresaliente CUM LAUDE by unanimous decision for my dissertation entitled “The Mosaic and Pictorial Decoration of Private Spaces in Bulla Regia (Tunisia).” I am accredited by ANECA as an assistant professor with a doctorate.
Furthermore, my pre-doctoral studies include a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History (09/30/2009-06/28/2013) from the Faculty of Geography and History of the UCM (final grade 9.2), followed by a Master’s Degree in Archeology of the Mediterranean in Classical Antiquity from the same faculty, obtaining a grade of 10 Matrícula de Honor in the Master’s Thesis with the title: “The Reliefs of Victories of the Carthage Museum (Tunisia): iconographic study and approximation to its monumental context” and as first of the promotion (average grade 9.6).
I am currently a Margarita Salas postdoctoral research fellow at the UCM, and my workplace is the Department of Art History and Theory at the UAM. I have held a predoctoral research contract at the UCM, which has allowed me to undertake numerous research stays abroad (École Normale Supérieure de Paris, University of “La Sapienza” in Rome, University Alma Mater of Bologna, Archaeological Museum of Bologna). I have also carried out several Erasmus Plus stays for teaching purposes at various universities (Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples, and Bari), teaching courses and seminars on Classical Iconography aimed at postgraduate students, as well as Erasmus Plus Teacher Training (Rome, Lisbon, and Bari). Similarly, during these stays, I have worked as a cultural guide in Italian, English, and French at the Museo Palazzo Poggi in Bologna and as a collaborator in a project at the Historical Archive of the University of Bologna, where I was responsible for standardizing all the names and surnames of Spanish students between 1500-1800. I have also participated in archaeological excavations at the sites of Tannetum, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Villa Sora, Ostia Antica, and Titulcia. I have several training courses in the field of museums and introduction to the use of new technologies in archaeological matters (Photogrammetry, Photoscan, LS, CAD, 3D Reconstruction), as well as collaboration with different prestigious projects developed in Spain, “Visual narration in Attic ceramics: red-figure craters in the Iberian context” (PGC2018-095530-B-100), directed by prof. Carmen Sánchez Fernández and prof. Jorge Tomás García and abroad, highlighting the “Study and excavation of the House of the Archaizing Diana (Pompeii)”, directed by Prof. Luzón Nogué; the “Programma Vesuviana” directed by prof. Coralini of the University of Bologna (Italy); the R&D Project: “Classical iconography and cultural contact in Roman Africa: sculptural programs in Carthage (Tunisia)” (HAR2011-23445), directed by Prof. Salcedo Garcés. I am currently a principal member of the R&D&I Project “North African identities in transformation: Libyan-Berber and Roman ethnicities through the funerary imaginary, directed by Prof. Salcedo Garcés and Jorge García Sánchez and of the Innovation Project Mythos: Myth and image in Classical Antiquity and its survivals (IV), with IP prof. Isabel Rodríguez López, as well as of the Research Group “African Archeology” (UCM). I hold a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training in Secondary Education, Baccalaureate and FP (10/01/2014-06/30/2015) and I have worked as a teacher of Art History, History and Geography of Secondary Education and Baccalaureate (2020-2021) and teaching three subjects in the Master of Teaching and in the Degree of Education at UNIDAM (2021-2022). Likewise, since 2014 I have had a contract with the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music-Albéniz Foundation as a tenured professor of Art History. I have also taught the subject of “Classical Iconography” for students of the Degree in Art History and the Degree in Archeology of the UCM (2017-2020), in the subject of Archeology in the Degree of Art History at the UNIR (2021-2022).
Among the scientific publications, the articles in Italian and Spanish on aspects dedicated to Greek and Roman classical iconography, as well as to domestic architecture in general and to the iconographic study of the musivaria of the Tunisian area in particular, stand out. Likewise, I have given numerous conferences both nationally (Madrid, Córdoba, Barcelona) and internationally (Italy, London, Cyprus, Tunisia). My lines of research are classical iconography, Roman domestic architecture in North Africa, musivaria and sculpture.