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.
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.
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.
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.
Roger Martínez-Dávila is Professor of History; Researcher at University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Roger Martínez-Dávila is a historian and digital humanist specializing in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, focusing on Christian, Jewish, and Islamic interrelations. He earned his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. Notably, he leads the Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Spain project and co-directed the NEH Immersive Global Middle Ages Advanced Digital Humanities Institute. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, trade, economy, and global networks, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts. Within PUC, their profile connects to.