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.
James W. Cortada is affiliated with the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. His work connects the history of computing, information systems, organizations, and technology with broader questions about knowledge, institutions, and public understanding. Within Plus Ultra Collective, his profile contributes to conversations about digital history, technological change, and the long histories of information infrastructure that shape research, education, and cultural memory.
Maddalena Bellavitis is Researcher and Faculty Member at C2RMF and Università degli Studi di Udine. Doctor Europaeus (2007), after a Marie Curie Fellowship, I divide my museum and academic career between the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France and the Università degli Studi di Udine. My research interests are extremely varied, ranging from the European art and culture of the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Colonialism. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, trade, economy, and global networks, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their.