Research

  • Drora Arussy

    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.

  • Maddalena Bellavitis

    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.

  • Shai Cohen

    Shai Cohen is Senior Lecturer; Director, Modern Languages Laboratory and Media Center at University of Miami. His research spans the legal and cultural intersections between communities in Spain, with a particular focus on the converso experience; political satire in 17th-century Spain; and Sephardi studies of migration, memory, and identity. He leads the Sephardi Spaces project, which maps historical and contemporary trajectories of Sephardic migration and identity across the globe. Cohen also develops XR and AI tools for heritage preservation, designing immersive exhibitions and digital platforms that bring historical narratives into the present. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, mapping, public history, translation, cultural heritage.