Raquel Rubio González

I hold a European PhD in History and Archaeology from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), having been unanimously awarded an Outstanding CUM LAUDE qualification for my thesis titled “Mosaic and Pictorial Decoration in Private Contexts in Bulla Regia (Tunisia)”. I am accredited by ANECA as an Assistant Professor (Doctor).
My predoctoral studies include a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History (September 30, 2009 – June 28, 2013) from the Faculty of Geography and History at UCM (final grade 9.2). This was followed by a Master’s Degree in Mediterranean Archaeology in Classical Antiquity at the same faculty, where I obtained a 10 (Distinction) for my Master’s Thesis titled: “The Victory Reliefs of the Carthage Museum (Tunisia): Iconographic Study and Approach to their Monumental Context,” graduating first in my class (average grade 9.6).
I am currently a Margarita Salas postdoctoral research fellow at UCM, based at the Department of History and Theory of Art at UAM. I previously held a predoctoral research contract at UCM, which allowed me to undertake numerous research stays abroad (École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Sapienza University of Rome, Alma Mater University of Bologna, Archaeological Museum of Bologna). Additionally, I have completed various Erasmus Plus teaching stays at different universities (Florence, Venice, Rome, Naples, and Bari), delivering courses and seminars on Classical Iconography for postgraduate students, as well as Erasmus Plus Teacher Training (Rome, Lisbon, and Bari). During these stays, I also worked as a cultural guide in Italian, English, and French at the Palazzo Poggi Museum in Bologna and collaborated on a project at the Historical Archive of the University of Bologna, where I was responsible for standardizing all names and surnames of Spanish students between 1500 and 1800. I have also participated in archaeological excavations at the sites of Tannetum, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Villa Sora, Ostia Antica, and Titulcia. I have completed several training courses in museum studies and in the introduction to new technologies in archaeology (Photogrammetry, Photoscan, LS, CAD, 3D Reconstruction), and have collaborated on various prestigious projects developed in Spain, such as “Visual Narrative in Attic Pottery: Red-Figure Craters in the Iberian Context” (PGC2018-095530-B-100), directed by Prof. Carmen Sánchez Fernández and Prof. Jorge Tomás García, and abroad, notably 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); and the R 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+i Project “North African Identities in Transformation: Libyco-Berber Ethnicities and Romanitas through Funerary Imagery,” 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 “African Archaeology” Research Group (UCM). I hold a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, and Vocational Training (October 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015) and have worked as a professor of Art History, History, and Geography for Secondary Education and Baccalaureate (2020-2021), and taught three subjects in the Master’s in Teacher Training and the Degree in Education at UNIDAM (2021-2022). Additionally, since 2014, I have held a contract with the Reina Sofía School of Music – Albéniz Foundation as a tenured professor of Art History. I have also taught the subject of “Classical Iconography” to students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and the Bachelor’s Degree in Archaeology at UCM (2017-2020), and the subject of Archaeology in the Bachelor’s Degree in Art History at 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.