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.
Patricia Schechter is Professor of History at Portland State University (Oregon, USA). She received her BA in American Studies magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College and then her PhD in History from Princeton University. Her first book, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform (UNC Press, 2001) won the Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. Her subsequent publications and public history projects have been recognized for their excellence by the Oral History Association, Library Choice, and the American Philosophical Society, among others. Their interests include migration, diaspora, and mobility, trade, economy, and global networks, cultural heritage and material culture, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts, memory, myth.
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.
Aurélia Rostaing is Archive Curator at Archives nationales (France). Archive curator since 1996, currently working at National Archives of France. Their interests include science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture, legal and inquisitorial history, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to manuscripts, archives, public history, pedagogy, digital humanities, translation. This work supports PUC’s broader effort to connect rigorous scholarship, public access, and cross-border collaboration around histories of cultural and religious difference.
Carlos Sanz Díaz is Professor of Contemporary History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research explores Spain’s role in European institutions, diplomatic negotiations, and transnational exchanges between Spain and Latin America. He currently holds a Jean Monnet Chair on the History of Europe and European Integration (funded by the European Commission) and leads the research project “Spain in Europe: Power and Influence in the European Community (1986–2004)”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. Their interests include migration, diaspora, and mobility, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, manuscripts, public history, pedagogy, digital humanities.
Karen Pinto is Historian of Islamic Cartography at University of Colorado Boulder. She has spent three decades examining maps in manuscript collections around the world. She has a 2000-strong image repository of Islamic maps—many that have never been published before. Her book Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration was published in November 2016 by University of Chicago Press and won a 2017 OAT (Outstanding Academic Title) award from Choice. Their interests include science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture, religious and intellectual history, memory, myth, and public history, medieval islamic maps. Within PUC, their profile connects to vr/xr, mapping, manuscripts, archives, public history, pedagogy.
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.
David Neville is Digital Liberal Arts Specialist at Grinnell College. He is also the project director for the Immersive Experiences Lab, an interdisciplinary community of inquiry and practice exploring new ways to approach liberal arts topics through the research and development of extended reality (XR) experiences, and the PI for an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level I) that supports the creation of an immersive virtual reality experience for visualizing a Viking longship, and understanding the social, linguistic, cultural, political, and economic roles that the longship played in the Viking Age. Their interests include trade, economy, and global networks, cultural heritage and material culture, research interests include: (1) the learning that occurs.
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.