JUAN ANTONIO
QUIROS CASTILLO

Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo holds a BA and a PhD in History from the University of Oviedo. He has conducted research at several Italian universities, including Sassari, Siena, and Pisa, as well as at the Spanish School of History and Archaeology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Rome. He is currently Professor of Archaeology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London, and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the universities of Bergamo (2025) and Siena (2026). He has also held visiting professorships at the universities of Lisbon, Bologna, Siena, Padua, Florence, Verona, and London. He leads the consolidated research group on Heritage and Cultural Landscapes and edits the book series Documentos de Arqueología Medieval and Historical Archaeologies (Archaeopress). He has led, and currently leads, several European research projects, including ARCHIMEDE, EARMEDCASTILE, CALOSEMA, and BASQUESMITH, as well as several projects funded under Spain’s National R&D&I Plan, focusing on early medieval European societies. He has authored 20 books and approximately 200 articles and book chapters published in several European countries. He serves on the editorial and scientific boards of several academic journals, including Archeologia Medievale, Munibe, Arqueología de la Arquitectura, Facta: A Journal of Late Roman, Medieval and Postmedieval Material Culture Studies, Boletín del Museo de Arqueología Medieval, and Territorio, Sociedad y Poder, as well as on the editorial boards of several scholarly book series, including Agira, Storia dei paesaggi medievali, and Altomedioevo. He has also reviewed manuscripts for more than 30 national and international journals and serves as an evaluator for numerous European and Spanish research agencies and institutions. Among his other academic responsibilities, he is a member of the External Assessment Panel of the Institute of Medieval Studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Chair of the History Committee of the Andalusian Agency for Accreditation and Evaluation. He has participated in more than one hundred academic conferences and scholarly meetings and has organized more than a dozen colloquia. His principal research interests include historical landscapes; the study of inequality and social complexity; the archaeology of peasant communities; the archaeology of power; rural landscapes; bioarchaeology; and the archaeology of architecture