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.
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.
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.
Ondrej Lee Stolicka is Lecturer and Historian at The Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research area includes connections between the Spanish court and Central European nobility (for example, the Order of the Golden Fleece). He defended his dissertation, Brandenburg-Prussia between Madrid and Vienna: The Failed Diplomatic Mission of Melchior von Ruck (1676–1680), at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2022. Between 2022 and 2024, he worked on his postdoctoral project, Central European Nobility and the Order of the Golden Fleece during the Reign of Leopold I, at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Their interests include migration.
James W. Cortada is affiliated with the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. His work connects the history of computing, information systems, organizations, and technology with broader questions about knowledge, institutions, and public understanding. Within Plus Ultra Collective, his profile contributes to conversations about digital history, technological change, and the long histories of information infrastructure that shape research, education, and cultural memory.