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.
Daniel Tejerina is Junior Research Fellow at University of Alicante. I’m a Junior Research Fellow at the University Institute for Archaeology and Historical Heritage (INAPH) of the University of Alicante, specialising in the application of digital technologies to cultural heritage. My work focuses on 3D survey, virtual reconstruction, immersive VR/AR experiences and digital museography, combining archaeological research with advanced digital workflows. Their interests include trade, economy, and global networks, science, knowledge, and technology transfer, cultural heritage and material culture. Within PUC, their profile connects to ai, vr/xr, mapping, manuscripts, archives, public history.
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.
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.
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.
Anthony John Lappin is Lecturer in Spanish at Stockholms Universitet. He is also enraptured by the theatricality of the Baroque. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, legal and inquisitorial history, religious and intellectual history, memory, myth, and public history. Within PUC, their profile connects to manuscripts, public history, pedagogy, digital humanities, translation, cultural heritage. This work supports PUC’s broader effort to connect rigorous scholarship, public access, and cross-border collaboration around histories of cultural and religious difference.
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.
Rubén González Cuerva is Permanent Scientist at CSIC. He has been postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Salta (Argentina), Marie Curie Fellow at the German Historical Institute of Rome, Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at the CSIC, and associate lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Complutense University. Currently, he directs the DIPLOINMED project (awarded by the Spanish National Research Agency), which analyses cross-confessional and global diplomacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Spanish Monarchy and Muslim polities. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, diplomatic history. Within PUC.
Luis García-Vela is Graduate Researcher at University of Zaragoza (Spain). With a bachelor’s in Hispanic literature and Linguistics (University of Zaragoza, 2024) he has participated in various conferences in Spain (Salamanca, Granada, Zaragoza…) and in the United States (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). He is a member of the PSA (Postcolonial Studies Association), the ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association), the CEAH (Centro de Estudios Afrohispánicos), and the Mediterranean Seminar (University of Colorado at Boulder). Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora, and mobility, colonialism, empire, and decolonization, cultural heritage and material culture, religious and intellectual history, identity, race, and ethnicity in historical contexts, memory, myth, and public history..