Dr. María Josefa Tarifa Castilla
Graduated in Geography and History from the University of Navarra, she obtained the Extraordinary award for the End of degree program of the History Section (1997) and the Third National award the End of degree program granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture (1998). In 2003 she obtained her doctorate in the specialization program of Art History with the thesis La arquitectura religiosa del siglo XVI en la Merindad de Tudela (Navarra), which was awarded the Extraordinary award of doctorate, being published in 2005 by the Government of Navarra. She is currently a professor of the department of Art History at the University of Zaragoza, member of the Institute of Heritage and Humanities of the University of Zaragoza, tutor of the Associated Center of the UNED of Pamplona and professor of the Chair of Heritage and Navarrese Art of the University of Navarra.
His main lines of research are the architecture of the sixteenth century, the patronage of the arts in the centuries of the Modern Age, architectural treatises, architectural designs, Jesuit architecture and the artistic heritage of Navarre, areas on which he has written several monographs and numerous scientific publications.
She has participated in different projects research and development of the Ministry dedicated to the Renaissance art of Granada, the designs of Jesuit architecture of the Modern Age and the traces of Gothic tradition in the Iberian Peninsula (15th-18th centuries). She has been a guest lecturer at teaching in Latin American universities, such as the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile and the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla de los Ángeles (Mexico).