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.
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.
Luis García-Vela is Graduate Researcher at University of Zaragoza (Spain). With a bachelor’s in Hispanic literature and Linguistics (University of Zaragoza, 2024) he has participated in various conferences in Spain (Salamanca, Granada, Zaragoza…) and in the United States (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). He is a member of the PSA (Postcolonial Studies Association), the ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association), the CEAH (Centro de Estudios Afrohispánicos), and the Mediterranean Seminar (University of Colorado at Boulder). Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts, memory, myth, and public history..
Paul Csillag is Historian; Postdoctoral Researcher at Innsbruck University. Paul Csillag is a historian of imperialism, historical fiction, and the Mediterranean. He obtained his PhD at the European University Institute and studied at the universities of Innsbruck, Jean Jaurès (Toulouse), and Yeditepe (Istanbul). Furthermore, he has taught courses on historical narratives at the universities of Sciences Po, Regensburg, Florence, Salzburg, Monash, and Innsbruck. Currently, he is supporting the Justman-Project as its coordinator and teaching at the Institute of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. Their interests include migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC.
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.