Prof. Hadeer Aboelnagah, is a Professor of English and Translation at the CHS, Prince Sultan University in Riyadh. She is the Director of the Translation and Authoring Center. She is a Principal fellow at the Higher Education Academy UK. Aboelnagah, established international academic reputation through teaching at State University of New York, University of Ottawa, Carleton University in Canada and Middlebury College. Her research interests include; post-colonial and ethnic literature, digital humanities, Middle- Eastern culture and literature, and post MT editing in Arabic. She authored a series of 9 books, translated 8 books and published numerous scholarly articles. She was a guest speaker at UNESCO World Forum of Humanities in South Korea, Food for Thought TV series in the Netherlands and many other international academic occasions. She is one of the main participants of the National Endowment of Humanities grant of Digital Humanities, USA 2022-3. She adopts a futuristic outlook to education and implements digital humanities approaches to pedagogy.

Drora Arussy, Ed.D,. is the Executive Director of Jewish Unity Through Diversity Institute. 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.

My dissertation explores treasure-hunting excavations in medieval Iberia and the early modern Spanish Empire. I draw from a body of legal, criminal, and inquisitorial sources from archives in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, to demonstrate that licensed treasure hunting was a widespread practice that occupied individuals of all social strata from across the empire. Treasure hunters' interactions with local officials, regional magistrates, and royal councils—whether licitly excavating, under investigation for deploying magical techniques, or concealing their finds to evade taxation—reveal a legal and cultural phenomenon deeply embedded in early modern society. I challenge traditional periodization by tracing this increasingly refined legal tradition and its licensing policies from antiquity through the early modern period. The bureaucratic system surrounding buried treasure evolved over centuries, first in North Africa, then in southern Europe, and was later exported to colonial Latin America, a legacy often overlooked in the historiography of Spanish imperialism. This licensed treasure-hunting system was used by a diverse range of individuals: Muslims and Jews routinely received treasure-hunting permits in medieval Iberia, indigenous Americans petitioned for licenses to excavate interred artifacts and ancient sites, and even moriscos expelled to North Africa were authorized to return to Iberia to reclaim buried caches of valuables. To visualize the geographical and chronological distribution of these excavations and their impacts on the archaeological record, I am currently building a website and digital map using ArcGIS: (https://baron.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/).

Andrea Davis is an Associate Professor of History at Arkansas State University, where she teaches modern European history, heritage studies, and digital humanities. Specializing in the urban social movements, memory cultures, and digital heritage of modern Spain, she directs Voices, Narratives, and Memories of Francoism, collaborates on the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, and co-organizes the international working group Towards a Spanish Civil War and Francoist Repression Digital Research Infrastructure. Andrea has also served as a Community Lead for the Digital Humanities Research Institute (2018-2019) and General Editor for the Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (2019-2022), where she co-edited special issues on "Digital Humanities" (2018) and "Iberia in Entangled and Transnational Contexts" (2019). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Fulbright Program. More at: https://andrea-davis.com/

Dr. Fernando Feliu-Moggi is a Professor of Spanish at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in cultural theory and modern cultural production. He earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching encompass Latin American, Spanish, and Italian cinema, with a focus on regions such as Mexico, Cuba, and Argentina. Dr. Feliu-Moggi is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and serves as President of the Miguel Angel Asturias Society, an international academic organization dedicated to Guatemalan cultural production since the 1920s.

Dr. Francisco J. García-Serrano is a historian specializing in medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean, with a focus on mendicant orders and national identities. He serves as a faculty member in the Division of Humanities at Saint Louis University's Madrid campus. Dr. García-Serrano earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. His research encompasses medieval travels, exploration, and the early Iberian presence in Asia. He has published works including "The Friars and their Influence in Medieval Spain" and "Preachers of the City: The Expansion of the Dominican Order in Castile, 1217-1348." More at: https://www.slu.edu/madrid/academics/faculty/francisco-garcia-serrano.php

Luis García-Vela is a researcher in Hispano-Maghrebi poetry, Aljamiado literature, and Aragonese poetry. He earned his bachelor's in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics from the University of Zaragoza (2024) and is affiliated with the Doctoral School there. He is a member of PSA, ICLA, CEAH, of the Mediterranean Seminar and the NYMUEEH 2.0 research group. In addition, he has received scholarships to attend several Summer Schools including those at Charles University (2024), and the University of Oxford (2025)

He founded CoPoHiM (Corpus de Poesía Hispanomagrebí) with Mohamed Abrighach (University of Agadir), a project analyzing Hispanophone-Maghrebi poetic production using digital tools like Nodegoat. His research also includes studies on Ibrahim Taybili, Mohamed Rabadan, and Aljamiado versions of the Book of Job, collaborating with Pablo Trébol García-Arilla.

He is preparing a monograph on Hispano-Maghrebi poetry, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education in Rabat, and co-editing the Complete Poetry of Julio Antonio Gómez with Laura Moreno Aragüés. His doctoral thesis, directed by Antonio Pérez Lasheras and Alberto Montaner Frutos, focuses on the Aljamiado Poem of Yūsuf.

Rubén González Cuerva (PhD Autonomous University of Madrid, 2010) is Permanent Scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (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. Among his publications are Baltasar de Zúñiga, una encrucijada de la Monarquía hispana (Madrid, 2012); (with Alexander Koller, eds.) A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions: Political Groupings at Early Modern Centres of Power (1550 – 1700) (Leiden, 2017); (with Miguel Ángel Bunes Ibarra) Túnez 1535: Voces de una campaña europea (Madrid, 2018); (with Francesco Caprioli, eds.) Reconocer al infiel: la representación en la diplomacia hispano-musulmana (siglos XVI y XVII) (Madrid, 2021); and Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1528-1603): Dynastic Networker (London, 2022). More at: https://bsky.app/profile/rgcuerva.bsky.social

Annabel Hancock is a Postdoctoral Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the 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. More at https://alhancockhistory.wordpress.com

Anthony John Lappin is Lecturer in Spanish in the University of Stockholm, teaching in a number of Romance languages and having a particular interest in textual criticism and literary analysis, particularly of medieval texts connected to the religious traditions of the Iberian peninsula. He is also enraptured by the theatricality of the Baroque. More at: https://www.su.se/english/profiles/anla6426-1.526624

Ignacio López Alemany is Professor of Spanish at the 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). Along with Jason McCloskey, he co-edited the volume Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World (Bucknell UP, 2013 [reprinted in 2017]). He is also co-author, with J. E. Varey, of El teatro palaciego en Madrid: 1707–1724. Estudio y documentos (Tamesis, 2006). He was editor of Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (2012-2021).

Brittany Lugo is a graduate student in the Master’s Program in Medieval Studies at Fordham University. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the CUNY BA Program for Interdisciplinary Studies, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and previously received an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts from CUNY Medgar Evers College, Summa Cum Laude. She also completed the Basic Latin Program at the Latin/Greek Institute.

Her research focuses on the theological and ideological frameworks of Latin Christendom in race formulations and medieval perceptions of Africans. She is a Center for Jewish Studies Student Fellow at Fordham University and previously held research roles with Brooklyn College’s LAMEN project and Fiction, Inc.

Brittany has worked extensively in museum and archival settings, including internships at the Brooklyn Museum, Weeksville Heritage Center, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she served as an ambassador. She has also presented at the CUNY BA Student Showcase on the depiction of Africans in Christian texts.

A committed leader, Brittany was actively involved in CUNY Medgar Evers College’s Student Government Association, serving as President, Recording Secretary, and Corresponding Secretary. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, The Medieval Academy of America, and the North American Patristic Society.

Dr. 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 Ph.D. 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.He is a Professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and a researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He utilizes digital tools like virtual reality and artificial intelligence to research and teach, making history accessible to the public and students. More at: https://www.rogermartinezdavila.com

Dr. Austin Mason is founding Director of the Digital Arts & Humanities minor program, Assistant Director of the Humanities Center for Digital Humanities, and Lecturer in History at Carleton College, where his responsibilities include integrating digital methods deeply into the Liberal Arts curriculum and co-supervising Digital Humanities Associate and Digital Scholarship Intern undergraduate programs. He holds a PhD in History from Boston College, with an emphasis on religious history, material culture, archaeology, spatial humanities and the digital humanities, and an M.St. in Medieval British History from Oxford University. His work has been supported by grants from the ACLS, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He is the co-PI for an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to develop the Virtual Viking Longship Project: A Study in the Future of Liberal Arts Teaching and Research. He teaches courses on the history of early medieval Europe, experimental archaeology, and Digital Humanities methods, and is currently working on a number of DH initiatives ranging from photogrammetry and 3D scanning to GIS, Virtual Reality, and educational video game projects. More at: https://medhieval.com/

David Neville is a Digital Liberal Arts Specialist in the Grinnell College Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative. He is also the project director for the Immersive Experiences Lab, an interdisciplinary community of inquiry and practice exploring new ways to approach liberal arts topics through the research and development of extended reality (XR) experiences, and the PI for an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level I) that supports the creation of an immersive virtual reality experience for visualizing a Viking longship, and understanding the social, linguistic, cultural, political, and economic roles that the longship played in the Viking Age. David holds a PhD (Washington University in St. Louis, 2002) in German Language and Literature and a MS (Utah State University, 2007) in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences. Prior to his arrival at Grinnell College, David was Associate Professor of German and founding director of the Business German Program at Elon University. More at: https://doktorfrag.com/

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. This finding illuminates a relatively neglected aspect of Spanish historiography and adds new information to our understanding of the state-building process as discussed in English-language historiography.

I am a participant in two spatial history research projects. The first project examined royal finances and tax collection in the early 1500s.  We sought to analyze quantitatively and spatially the growth of ecclesiastical and secular taxes in Castile and how those taxes were collected. I did research on the payment of ecclesiastical contributions. The second project is building a virtual city to help students to learn about the past in an interactive format and to facilitate the study of intercultural relations between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the city of Plasencia, Spain, over nearly two hundred years. Learn more about the project.

I also have an ongoing Atlantic history project on the Spanish consular service in the Early American Republic.  I am interested in the role of the consuls as agents for transatlantic integration, and how Spanish consuls in the United Sates responded to the rapidly changing political and commercial configuration of the Atlantic world. More at: https://www.anselm.edu/about/campus-directory/sean-perrone

Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, of Indian, Russian, French, and 16th-century Goan-Portuguese stock, educated at Dartmouth and Columbia, Karen Pinto specializes in the history of Islamic cartography and its intersections between Ottoman, European, and other worldly cartographic traditions. 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. She has won numerous grants for her work on Islamic maps, including a 2013-14 NEH fellowship. She has published articles on medieval Islamic, medieval European and Ottoman maps and has on-going book projects on “The Maghrib & the Mediterranean in the Islamic Cartographic Imagination” and “What is 'Islamic' about Islamicate Maps.” Along with work on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Pinto works with Digital Humanities, Spatial Studies, and is trying to develop 3D spatial modules of places on Islamic Maps. See a display of her work and dot stories on https://pixeum.org/exhibits/412/islamic-maps-from-the-collection-of-karen-pinto. Presently, she is an Independent Associate Scholar in Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. For examples of Karen Pinto’s work see: https://colorado.academia.edu/KarenPinto

Carlos Javier Sanz Díaz is a Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and a specialist in European integration history, Spanish foreign policy, and international relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. His research explores Spain’s role in European institutions, diplomatic negotiations, and transnational exchanges between Spain and Latin America.

He currently holds a Jean Monnet Chair on the History of Europe and European Integration (funded by the European Commission) and leads the research project "Spain in Europe: Power and Influence in the European Community (1986–2004)", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. He has published extensively on Cold War diplomacy, migration, and Spain’s role in European and global governance.

Sanz Díaz is also actively involved in interdisciplinary collaborations, including the project "Democratic Transitions and Historical Memory: Cross-Learning between Latin America and Spain" (Fundación Carolina), which examines historical memory and democratization processes across both regions.

His work contributes to international debates on diplomacy, peacebuilding, and the politics of history, bridging academic research with public discourse and policy discussions. More at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-sanz-d%C3%ADaz-phd-5a018030/

Patricia Schechter is professor of history at Portland State University in Oregon where she has taught since 1995. 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. She is currently editor of the online journal and database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Her new book El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939, is a transnational social and labor history of a mining town in Andalusia, Spain, published by Routledge in the 2024. She also co-hosts the podcast "Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War" with fellow historian Daniel J. Czitrom. More at: http://www.libros-del-terrible.com

Ondrej Lee Stolicka specializes in the history of early modern and modern Europe, focusing on the relationships between German-speaking areas (especially Brandenburg-Prussia, the Hanseatic League, and the territories of the Austrian Habsburgs) and the Spanish monarchy. 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. Since 2025, he has been a fellow at the Centre for Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at the University of North Carolina. More at: https://jcu.academia.edu/OndrejLeeStolicka

Sara Torres is as a content strategist in civic technology and medievalist who holds Visiting Scholar status at the University of New Mexico. She has previously held an assistant professorship in English at Converse University, a Third Century Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia, the Speculum Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Medieval Academy of America, and a lectureship at UCLA. Her research interests include global and comparative medieval and early modern studies, translation theory and practice, gender studies, and environmental humanities. More at: www.saravtorres.com, saratorres.substack.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/saravtorres/

Dr. Belen Vicens is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University, Maryland. She is a historian of law and society in medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on relations between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Negotiating Power and Privilege: Law, Monarchy, and the Nobility in Medieval Aragon and an article that examines the fortunes of a set of properties in the aftermath of the Aragonese conquest of Valencia of 1238 and the elite tenants’ relationships with the Crown. She coedited Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean: Essays in Memory of Olivia Remie Constable (Palgrave, 2021), and published “Swearing by God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia” (Medieval Encounters, 2014), which won ASPHS’ 2015 Best First Article prize. She cofounded Premodern Iberianists of the Mid-Atlantic Association (PIMA) in 2019, served in the Executive Council of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (ARHMS) from 2019 to 2022, and is currently a board member of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS). More at: https://belenvicens.wordpress.com/

Mr. Sean Wybrant, an award-winning educator at William J. Palmer High School, specializes in career and technical education, with a focus on integrating emerging technologies into student learning. As the 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year, he has pioneered projects leveraging augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) to create immersive educational experiences. His groundbreaking work includes the development of a virtual reality museum exploring the Saipan Maritime Heritage Trail and the Battle of Saipan, fostering global collaboration between students in Colorado and Saipan.