Programs

  • Aurélia Rostaing

    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

    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.

  • Jorge Morato

    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

    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

    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.

  • 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.

  • Brittany Lugo

    Brittany Lugo is affiliated with Fordham University. Her work contributes to Plus Ultra Collective’s interdisciplinary community through interests in historical research, teaching, and public-facing humanities inquiry. Within PUC, her profile supports the Collective’s broader effort to connect scholars, educators, and learners around questions of cultural exchange, historical interpretation, and collaborative knowledge-making across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.

  • Ignacio Lopez

    Ignacio Lopez is Professor of Spanish at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Teatro y diplomacia en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro, 1640-1746 (University of Valencia, 2022). He has edited the libretti of two operas by José de Cañizares and Giacomo Facco, Las amazonas de España (1720) and La hazaña mayor de Alcides (1723) (Iberoamericana, 2018). He is the author of the monograph Ilusión áulica e imaginación caballeresca en El cortesano de Luis Milán (UNC Press, 2013). Their interests include literature, court society. Within PUC, their profile connects to pedagogy.