Southern Europe

  • 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.

  • Sean Perrone

    Sean Perrone is Professor of History at Saint Anselm College. My research initially investigated the fiscal negotiations between the Castilian Crown and the Assembly of the Clergy in the early modern period. I was particularly interested in the tensions between these two institutions and their impact on state-building in the early modern period. My research suggested that representative institutions retained considerably more autonomy and control over financial matters than previously thought. Their interests include migration, diaspora, and mobility, trade, economy, and global networks. Within PUC, their profile connects to mapping, pedagogy, translation, cultural heritage.

  • Stuart Michael McManus

    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.

  • Genie Milgrom

    Genie Milgrom is Genealogist, Author, and Global Speaker at Independent Scholar. Genealogist, author and Global Speaker Developed a unique method to trace Jewish Lineages to the 1400s Past President of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies Past President of the Society of Jewish Genealogy President of Tarbut Sefarad Fermoselle in Barcelona Author of My 15 Grandmothers, How I found my 15 Grandmothers, Pyre to Fire and The Recipes of my 15 Grandmothers all available on Amazon in English and Spanish Speaker at the Knesset on the topic of anusim and speaker at the Press Box at the EU Parliament Winner of the 2015 and 2018 and 2020 Latin Author Book Award Winner.

  • Roger Martínez-Dávila

    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

    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.

  • 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.

  • Anthony John Lappin

    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

    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.

  • Annabel Hancock

    Annabel Hancock is Postdoctoral Associate Member; Visiting Research Scholar at University of Oxford / University of Maryland. She is a historian of trust, trade, movement, identity, and documentary cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Trust in Medieval Trade and planning a new research project exploring how enslaved individuals shaped economic, cultural, and social relationships in the Mediterranean, considering the language used to speak about enslaved people, how the presence of enslaved peoples affected the language of commerce, trust, and risk, and how enslaved individuals took part in the documentary culture of the Crown of Aragon. Their interests include intercultural and interreligious exchange, migration, diaspora.