Professor Reuben Grima

Reuben Grima is a senior lecturer in the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage at the University of Malta, lecturing mainly in cultural heritage management.

He obtained his PhD in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. Before joining the University of Malta, he held various curatorial roles at Malta’s National Museum of Archaeology. He served as Heritage Malta’s Senior Curator responsible for Malta’s two prehistoric World Heritage Sites, namely the the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and the Megalithic Temples of Malta. In 2022, while holding a Shortland-Jones Fellowship at the British School at Rome, he pursued research on early modern antiquarian networks between Malta and Rome. His current research interests include cultural landscapes, the history of archaeology and archaeological sites, and public engagement with the past.