Rubina Raja is professor of classical archaeology and art at Aarhus University, Denmark. She specializes in the archaeology and art of the Greek east and wider eastern Mediterranean with a focus on cities, societies, and self-representational aspects between 300 BCE and 300 CE, including artistic and architectural traditions. Raja is also director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions and heads collaborative research projects focusing on the archaeology and history of the wider Eastern Mediterranean, including the Palmyra Portrait Project and the Semper Ardens Advanced Grant project, Locally Crafted Empires. Raja has headed several fieldwork projects in the Mediterranean and Middle East. She has published widely on topics concerning the Greek East and wider Eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic to early Medieval periods. Her books include Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra (Oxford University Press 2022), Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC – AD 250: Aphrodisias, Athens, Ephesos, Gerasa (Museum Tusculanum 2012), and Palmyrene Sarcophagi (with O. Bobou, Brepols 2023
Rubina Raja
