Cultural Heritage

  • Sean Wybrant

    Sean Wybrant is Educator; Career and Technical Education Specialist at William J. Palmer High School. Sean Wybrant, an award-winning educator at William J. Palmer High School, specializes in career and technical education, with a focus on integrating emerging technologies into student learning. As the 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year, he has pioneered projects leveraging augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) to create immersive educational experiences. His groundbreaking work includes the development of a virtual reality museum exploring the Saipan Maritime Heritage Trail and the Battle of Saipan, fostering global collaboration between students in Colorado and Saipan. Within PUC, their profile connects to vr/xr, public history, pedagogy, cultural heritage.

  • Sara Torres

    Sara Torres is Content Strategist; Visiting Scholar at UNM (Visiting Scholar). She has previously held an assistant professorship in English at Converse University, a Third Century Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia, the Speculum Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Medieval Academy of America, and a lectureship at UCLA. Her research interests include global and comparative medieval and early modern studies, translation theory and practice, gender studies, and environmental humanities. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to mapping, manuscripts, public history.

  • Belén Vicens

    Belen Vicens is Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University, MD. She is a historian of law and society in medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on relations between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Negotiating Power and Privilege: Law, Monarchy, and the Nobility in Medieval Aragon and an article that examines the fortunes of a set of properties in the aftermath of the Aragonese conquest of Valencia of 1238 and the elite tenants’ relationships with the Crown. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, legal and inquisitorial history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to.

  • Sean Perrone

    Sean Perrone is Professor of History at Saint Anselm College. My research initially investigated the fiscal negotiations between the Castilian Crown and the Assembly of the Clergy in the early modern period. I was particularly interested in the tensions between these two institutions and their impact on state-building in the early modern period. My research suggested that representative institutions retained considerably more autonomy and control over financial matters than previously thought. Their interests include migration, diaspora, and mobility, trade, economy, and global networks. Within PUC, their profile connects to mapping, pedagogy, translation, cultural heritage.

  • Stuart Michael McManus

    Stuart Michael McManus is Scholar of Renaissance Law and Letters at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. McManus is a scholar of Renaissance law and letters in global context. He also has interests in the history of classical scholarship, Chinese humanities and the application of digital tools to historical research, in particular the nascent field of Cross-Cultural Analytics. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, legal and inquisitorial history, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to vr/xr, mapping, manuscripts, digital humanities, translation, cultural heritage.

  • Batoul Mohsenirad

    Batoul Mohsenirad is Scholar of Arabic Language, Translation, and Comparative Literature at Independent Scholar. Education: PhD in Arabic Language and Literature, Lebanese University (Specialization: Comparative Literature and Translation) Research Areas: Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Manuscript Studies Professional Memberships: Member, Scientific Association for Arabic Language and Literature (Iran) Member, International Association of Arabic Language and Literature (UAE) Member, International Federation of Translators (Dubai) Academic Experience: Supervised over 60 postgraduate theses (Master’s and PhD) Reviewer for numerous research articles and dissertations Publications and Contributions: Book Translation: “We and the Heritage of Persia” by Dr. Their interests include science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture. Within PUC, their profile connects.

  • Roger Martínez-Dávila

    Roger Martínez-Dávila is Professor of History; Researcher at University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Roger Martínez-Dávila is a historian and digital humanist specializing in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, focusing on Christian, Jewish, and Islamic interrelations. He earned his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. Notably, he leads the Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Spain project and co-directed the NEH Immersive Global Middle Ages Advanced Digital Humanities Institute. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, trade, economy, and global networks, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to.

  • Ondrej Lee Stolicka

    Ondrej Lee Stolicka is Lecturer and Historian at The Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research area includes connections between the Spanish court and Central European nobility (for example, the Order of the Golden Fleece). He defended his dissertation, Brandenburg-Prussia between Madrid and Vienna: The Failed Diplomatic Mission of Melchior von Ruck (1676–1680), at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2022. Between 2022 and 2024, he worked on his postdoctoral project, Central European Nobility and the Order of the Golden Fleece during the Reign of Leopold I, at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Their interests include migration.

  • Anthony John Lappin

    Anthony John Lappin is Lecturer in Spanish at Stockholms Universitet. He is also enraptured by the theatricality of the Baroque. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, legal and inquisitorial history, religious and intellectual history, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to manuscripts, public history, pedagogy, digital humanities, translation, cultural heritage. This work supports PUC’s broader effort to connect rigorous scholarship, public access, and cross-border collaboration around histories of cultural and religious difference.

  • Annabel Hancock

    Annabel Hancock is Postdoctoral Associate Member; Visiting Research Scholar at University of Oxford / University of Maryland. She is a historian of trust, trade, movement, identity, and documentary cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Trust in Medieval Trade and planning a new research project exploring how enslaved individuals shaped economic, cultural, and social relationships in the Mediterranean, considering the language used to speak about enslaved people, how the presence of enslaved peoples affected the language of commerce, trust, and risk, and how enslaved individuals took part in the documentary culture of the Crown of Aragon. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora.