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Past Member

Rubina Raja

Funding provided by the Hetty Goldman Membership Fund

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Classical Archaeology
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Rubina Raja’s research explores visual culture and urbanism in the ancient world. Raja is studying the largest corpus of Roman-period portraits stemming from one location, namely Palmyra in Syria. These portraits will be the focus of her research at IAS, as they give new insight into the structure of religious life in Palmyra in the first three centuries C.E.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Spring

Degrees

University of Oxford
Ph.D.
2005

Honors

2015
EliteForsk Award, The Danish Ministry for Education and Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Max Planck Gesellschaft, Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities
2015
Tagea Brandts Award for Female Researchers
2014
Silver medal for outstanding research in the humanities, The Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark