Translation

  • 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.

  • Thomas Devaney

    Thomas Devaney is Associate Professor of History at the University of Rochester. His work engages medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean worlds, with attention to intercultural and interreligious exchange and religious and intellectual history. Within PUC, his profile supports collaborative research, programs, and mentoring around premodern histories of contact, conflict, and coexistence.

  • Hadeer Abouelnagah

    Hadeer Aboelnagah is Professor of English and Translation; Director of the Translation and Authoring Center at Prince Sultan University. She is the Director of the Translation and Authoring Center. She is a Principal fellow at the Higher Education Academy UK. Aboelnagah, established international academic reputation through teaching at State University of New York, University of Ottawa, Carleton University in Canada and Middlebury College. Her research interests include; post-colonial and ethnic literature, digital humanities, Middle- Eastern culture and literature, and post MT editing in Arabic. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, women studies and translation. Within PUC, their profile connects to archives, pedagogy, digital humanities, translation, cultural heritage.

  • Drora Arussy

    Drora Arussy is Executive Director at Jewish Unity Through Diversity. Her research and educational programs focus on multi-cultural and cross-cultural impacts across the Jewish world and with their neighbors. Drora is the co-editor of Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds and Aden: Social, Cultural, and Communal Histories of a Multicultural Port, and author of Leah Nassi of Lisbon: A Historical Novel. Her current research focuses on the Jewish community of Sana’a Yemen in the first half of the 20th century. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to vr/xr, public.

  • Shai Cohen

    Shai Cohen is Senior Lecturer; Director, Modern Languages Laboratory and Media Center at University of Miami. His research spans the legal and cultural intersections between communities in Spain, with a particular focus on the converso experience; political satire in 17th-century Spain; and Sephardi studies of migration, memory, and identity. He leads the Sephardi Spaces project, which maps historical and contemporary trajectories of Sephardic migration and identity across the globe. Cohen also develops XR and AI tools for heritage preservation, designing immersive exhibitions and digital platforms that bring historical narratives into the present. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, mapping, public history, translation, cultural heritage.