Ian Torres is a teaching faculty member associated with UCCS and Pikes Peak State College. His background includes graduate training in history at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Within Plus Ultra Collective, his profile connects teaching, historical study, and public humanities, contributing to the Collective’s interest in accessible education, collaborative learning, and the translation of scholarly knowledge for broader audiences.
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.
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.
Jeffrey William Baron is PhD Candidate in History at University of Rochester. Baron is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Rochester. His dissertation explores the legal traditions and licensing policies governing the excavation of buried treasure in the medieval and early modern Hispanic world. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, legal and inquisitorial history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, mapping, manuscripts, public history, pedagogy.
Victor Temprano is Independent Scholar; Software Developer; Writer at Independent Scholar. He is the founder of Native-Land.ca and the CEO of Mapster Technology Inc. and has worked on dozens of projects in the Digital Humanities. He is the creator of numerous online courses on digital mapping, project management, and programming, and also runs a Youtube channel focused on the history of unusual maps. He works with scholars and academics around the world to help hone concepts and implement new projects with agility and imagination. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, trade, economy, and global networks, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and.
Lynn Ramey is Professor of French and Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of medieval French literature and culture, she integrates digital humanities, immersive environments, and game-based learning into her research and teaching. Her work bridges the study of race and identity in the Middle Ages with innovative approaches to language and cultural pedagogy. She is coauthor of Engagements in Literary Gaming (Routledge, 2026) and coeditor of Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom (Bloomsbury, 2022). Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, trade, economy, and global networks, cultural heritage and material culture, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to vr/xr.
Jorge Morato is Information Scientist and Digital Humanities Scholar at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. I hold a PhD in Information Science and have worked for 26 years in a computer science department on various aspects of information. My work includes NLP, accessibility, linked data, metadata, and knowledge organization systems (KOS). Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, manuscripts, archives, public history, pedagogy.
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 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.
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.