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Mireia López Bertran is lecturer (profesor ayudante doctor) at Departament of Art History

of the Universitat de Valencia since October 2016. She was graduated in Humanities by

the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2000 and received her PhD degree in History from the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 2007. She specialises in the Phoenician-Punic

archaeology, with research interests in iconography, ancient Mediterranean art, embodiment,

rituals and gender. Between 2010-2012, she was postdoctoral researcher of the Spanish

Ministry of Education and Culture-FECYT and she worked as an Honorary Research Fellow

at the Archaeology Unit of the University of Glasgow. She undertook a project called “ Craft,

rituals and gender in the Punic Mediterranean: a comparative analysis between Eivissa

and Sardinia” . She was appointed Beatriu de Pinós/Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona between 2014 and 2016 and she undertook a project

entitled “ Change and continuity in the cemeteries of the Phoenician and Punic world:

funerary rituals and conceptions of the body”.

She has also been awarded with funds from the DAAD

(German Academic Exchange Service) to be visiting scholar at the Eberhard-Karl Universität

Tübingen in 2006, 2010 and 2014. She has joined the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and

the Ancient Wolrd (Brown University) as visiting scholar in April-May 2015.

She has been involved in several national and international I+D+ i, and, she is also a member of the research group ARSMAYA (GIUV2013-09) leaded by  Cristina Vidal (Universitat de València) that deals with the documentation, value and diffusion of cultural heritage.  

Currently, she is working on art and iconography of the Iron Age Mediterranean from a embodied and gender perspective. More specifically she is specialised in coroplastic art from a material culture perspective.