Cultural Heritage and Material Culture

  • Paula Pérez-Rodríguez

    Paula Pérez-Rodríguez is Postdoctoral Marcel Bataillon Fellow at Madrid Institute for Advanced Study / Spanish National Scientific Council. She was a Research Fellow at Fundación Banco Sabadell-Hangar during 2024 and received her PhD at Princeton University in 2023. She also holds an MA from Princeton University (Hispanic & Lusophone Studies), the University of Alcalá (American Cultural Studies) and a BA from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research explores the technological and cultural order of verbal and textual arts and radical and collective creative practices, touching on areas like Cultural History, Literary Theory, Book History, popular and vernacular cultures and the intersection of literacy, media, writing and the arts. Their interests include.

  • Maureen McGuire

    Maureen McGuire is Assistant Professor of Art History at Jacksonville State University. She earned her PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She researches the cultural matronage of elite Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval women around the Mediterranean. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, cultural heritage and material culture, religious and intellectual history, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, mapping, manuscripts, archives, public history.

  • Genie Milgrom

    Genie Milgrom is Genealogist, Author, and Global Speaker at Independent Scholar. Genealogist, author and Global Speaker Developed a unique method to trace Jewish Lineages to the 1400s Past President of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies Past President of the Society of Jewish Genealogy President of Tarbut Sefarad Fermoselle in Barcelona Author of My 15 Grandmothers, How I found my 15 Grandmothers, Pyre to Fire and The Recipes of my 15 Grandmothers all available on Amazon in English and Spanish Speaker at the Knesset on the topic of anusim and speaker at the Press Box at the EU Parliament Winner of the 2015 and 2018 and 2020 Latin Author Book Award Winner.

  • 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.

  • Austin Mason

    Austin Mason is Assistant Director of Digital Humanities at Carleton College. He holds a PhD in History from Boston College, with an emphasis on religious history, material culture, archaeology, spatial humanities and the digital humanities, and an M.St. in Medieval British History from Oxford University. His work has been supported by grants from the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He is the co-PI for an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop the Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, trade, economy, and global networks, cultural heritage.

  • 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.

  • Gavin H. Rogers

    Gavin H. Rogers is a doctoral student at the University of New Mexico specializing in Jewish life in the Iberian Peninsula. He also investigates historical network formations at the intersection of economics and the environment. A recipient of the 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies Tashjian Award, he contributes to PUC’s work on Iberian history, Jewish studies, networks, and digital approaches to historical evidence.

  • Marina Gómez Rey

    Marina Gómez Rey is Generative AI Specialist at UC3M. Since then, she has built her expertise in this field, working in both the private and public sectors on projects such as BADDO, which intents to overcome the barries between history and AI. A history enthusiast with a particular love for ancient history and archaeology, Marina took a course in Roman archaeology during her Erasmus in Rome. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, cultural heritage and material culture, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, mapping, manuscripts, public history, pedagogy, digital humanities.

  • Rubén González Cuerva

    Rubén González Cuerva is Permanent Scientist at CSIC. He has been postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Salta (Argentina), Marie Curie Fellow at the German Historical Institute of Rome, Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at the CSIC, and associate lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Complutense University. Currently, he directs the DIPLOINMED project (awarded by the Spanish National Research Agency), which analyses cross-confessional and global diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Spanish Monarchy and Muslim polities. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, diplomatic history. Within PUC.

  • Estelle Guéville

    Estelle Guéville is Curator and PhD Candidate in Medieval Studies at Yale University. She previously graduated in History, Art History and the Management of Cultural Heritage from Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Before joining Yale, she worked for several cultural institutions in France and the Gulf, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Musée national du Moyen Age – Thermes de Cluny in Paris. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, cultural heritage and material culture, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, mapping, manuscripts, archives, public history, pedagogy.