The Team
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Our project is an international collaboration involving eleven universities in Spain, Switzerland, and the United States of America.
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The project is an independent scholarly endeavor organized within the Global Middle Ages Project—G-MAP—an ambitious effort by an international collaboration of scholars to see the world whole, c. 500 to 1500 CE, to deliver the stories of lives, objects, and actions in dynamic relationship and change across deep time. G-MAP at the University of Texas at Austin graciously provided seed-funding for the creation of Virtual Plasencia, as well as ongoing intellectual and technical counsel.
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Additionally, we have secured collaborative agreements and endorsements from key Spanish institutions, including the Ayuntamiento de Plasencia; Ministerio de Educación, Cultura, y Deportes; and Centro Sefarad Israel.
See: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura, y Deportes Endorsement Letter, Ayuntamiento de Plasencia Acuerdo/Agreement and Centro Sefarad Israel Acuerdo/Agreement
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[lab_heading title=”Team Members”]Dr. Martinez serves as the Project Director (PD) and Dr. Schinazi (Co-PrincipaI Investigator) is the technical leader.
For more information on the project, please contact Dr. Martinez at (719) 255-4070 or info@revealingcooperationandconflict.com. His mailing address is: University of Colorado, Department of History – Columbine Hall 2046, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 USA.
For more information on the project, please contact Dr. Martinez at (719) 255-4070 or info@revealingcooperationandconflict.com. His mailing address is: University of Colorado, Department of History – Columbine Hall 2046, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 USA.
Core Team Members
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[lab_team_members hover_bg=”#9e8779″ img_size=”1200×1900″][lab_team_members_member image=”1010″ name=”Roger L. Martínez-Dávila, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Spanish history and paleography” description=”Dr. Martinez is an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs. Dr. Martinez is a specialist in medieval Spanish paleography, the history of medieval inter-religious relations, and the community history of Plasencia. He has investigated in over 40+ Spanish and international archives. In addition to his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Martínez worked for eight years in the public sector, including strategic planning and technical consulting positions at the Institute for the Future, Election.com, and MGT of America. He holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Martinez has managed numerous project teams and budgets in excess of $500,000 USD. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rogerlouismartinez.com.|title:Roger%20website|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”101″ name=”Victor R. Schinazi, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Geographic information visualization” description=”Dr. Schinazi is an Oberassistent (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Humanities, Social & Political Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich). He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London. During 2011-2012, he served as the Chief Science Officer for Strategic Spatial Solutions, Inc. (Berkeley, CA) – a company developing software solutions to architects and planners. Dr. Schinazi has also been at the forefront of desktop and immersive 3D modeling and has published in geography, sociology and more recently in the cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Schinazi, who is of Sephardic Portuguese descent, is a native of Montreal, Canada. He is fluent in five languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cog.ethz.ch%2Fpeople%2Fscvictor|title:ScVictor|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”117″ name=”Paddington Hodza, Ph.D” sub_title=”Geographic information visualization” description=”Dr. Hodza is the Assistant Director of Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC). His research interests are in the areas of Appreciative GIS (AGIS), Experiential GIS (EGIS), geovisualization and user experience (UX) of geospatial technology. In 2013, Dr. Hodza (PI) and Cerian Gibbes (Co-PI) received a $100,000 ESRI and PCI Natural Resources Grant Program for a 6-month long project titled, “Fusing radar and optical satellite data to detect and geovisualize vegetation changes within a GIS and image processing Environment.”” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uwyo.edu%2Fwygisc%2Fpeople%2Fhodza_paddington%2F|title:Hodza|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”1011″ name=”Ece Turnator, Ph.D.” sub_title=”Medieval history and digital humanities” description=”Dr. Turnator received her Ph.D. in Medieval (Byzantine) History from Harvard in 2013. Her dissertation is an interpretation of 13th-century Byzantine economy through an analysis of archaeological (coins and ceramics) evidence. As of September 2013, she is a CLIR/Mellon F. Post-doctoral fellow at UT Austin working on MappaMundi, studying and learning about “digital humanities,” best practices for data curation and visualization. Her interests include world economic history and material culture.”][lab_team_members_member image=”385″ name=”Katja Woff, B.Sc.” sub_title=”Computer science” description=”Katja Wolff is a computer science student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) and works as a Hilfsassistent (auxiliary assistant) for the Department of Humanities, Social & Political Science. She holds both a B.Sc. in Mathematics and in Computer Science from the Humboldt-University of Berlin and now specializes in computer graphics. Additionally, she also likes to do artwork for games.”][lab_team_members_member image=”1013″ name=”Francisco García-Serrano Nebras, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Spanish history and paleography” description=”A native of Spain, Dr. Garcia-Serrano holds a Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently an associate professor of History at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. in addition, he has been a visiting professor/researcher fellow at various universities in the US, Spain and Japan. His areas of research include medieval Castile, religious orders, social history and identity. Dr. García-Serrano has worked at length in archives and libraries in the US, Spain, Portugal and France. His most recent publications analyze the impact of the mendicant orders in medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean world. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fspain.slu.edu%2Ffac%2Ffgarcias.html|title:FGarcias|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”121″ name=”Sean T. Perrone, Ph.D.” sub_title=”Spanish and economic history” description=”Dr. Perrone is professor of history at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. He is the author of Charles V and the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy: Negotiations for the Ecclesiastical Subsidy, 1530-1556. (Leiden & Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008), and he has recently published articles on spatial history and transatlantic networks. He has done extensive research in Spanish royal and cathedral archives (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, Seville, and Granada). ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anselm.edu%2Facademic%2Fhistory%2Ffaculty%2FPerrone.htm|title:Perrone|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”119″ name=”David Alonso García, Ph.D.” sub_title=”Spanish and economic history” description=”Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Modern History. His area of expertise includes fiscal history and financial networks during XVIth, both in Spain and Europe. He was principal investigator in DynCoopNet network (managed by Drs. J. W. Owens and A. Crespo), supported by European Science Foundation, where the key topic attends to the role of cooperation within merchant networks. Currently, he leads a research project for using GIS technologies in order to analyze Castilian tax system between 15th- 16th centuries. He organized, with Dra. Ana Crespo, a session in XVth World Economic History Congress (Utrecht, 2009), about “Self-organizing networks and Trading Cooperation: GIS tools in the visualization of the Atlantic Economic expansion (1400-1800)”. ” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbiblioteca.ucm.es%2Fescritores%2Fdavid_alonso%2F|title:David%20Alonso|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”129″ name=”Kathyrn Andrus, Ph.D.” description=”Dr. Andrus is an Instructional Technologist with a specialty in multimedia. She has taught at UCCS for over 25 years and online for 8. Her courses have included topics in Art, Art History, Interdisciplinary Core Humanities, and Freshman Seminar. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uccs.edu%2F~kandrus%2F|title:Kandrus|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”1184″ name=”Anthony “Tony” Puglisi, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Spanish literature and paleography” description=”Anthony Puglisi is from Maine and now lives in Valladolid, Spain. Before immigrating, he was a Spanish language and literature professor at several North American universities. He wrote his dissertation at Cornell University (2007) about the authors Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Luis del Mármol Carvajal, and Ginés Pérez de Hita because they all devoted books to their memories of the Granadino Moriscos’ second uprising in the Alpujarras (1568-72). In Spain, Tony teaches English as a second language and continues with his research.”][lab_team_members_member][lab_team_members_member image=”1177″ name=”Dr. Mubbasir Kapadia” sub_title=”Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University” description=”He was an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research Zurich. He was a postdoctoral researcher and Assistant Director at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at University of Pennsylvania, under the directorship of Prof. Norman I. Badler. He was the project lead on the United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL) funded project Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA). He received his PhD in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles under the advisement of Professor Petros Faloutsos. Kapadia’s research interests include developing computational models for simulating autonomous virtual humans with application in crowd simulation and real-time multi-agent planning (robotics).” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rutgers.edu%2F~mubbasir%2F|title:Mubbasir|target:%20_blank”][/lab_team_members]
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[/lab_heading][lab_team_members hover_bg=”#ada187″ img_size=”1200×1900″][lab_team_members_member image=”102″ name=”J. B. Owens, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Spanish history and geographic information systems” description=”Dr. Owens is a research professor of geographically-integrated history, Idaho State University. He has published two books and numerous articles on Spanish history; he was a pioneer in the use of the Internet for teaching (since 1994); and he created the first graduate program in the discipline of History that was based on the use of geographic information systems (GIS). He received a senior summer stipend and a full fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow, and he has been awarded two large grants from the National Science Foundation ($400,000 and $1.3 million). ” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fidahostate.academia.edu%2FJBJackOwens|title:owens|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”104″ name=”Sara Irina Fabrikant, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Geographic information visualization” description=”Dr. Fabrikant is a professor of geography and the head of the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis unit at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. She earned her Ph.D. in geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her research and teaching interests lie in geographic information visualization and visual analytics (geovis), GIScience and cognition, graphical user interface design and evaluation, including dynamic cartography. She is currently the elected chair of the commission on Cognitive Visualization of the International Cartographic Association. She publishes in a variety of GIScience/geovis related journals and is currently a member of seven editorial boards (i.e., Annals, CEUS, etc.), in addition to her program committee memberships for various international GIScience/geovis related conferences (i.e., GIScience, COSIT, InfoVis (UK), etc.). ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.uzh.ch%2F~sara%2Fpersonal%2FH_O_M_E.html|title:Sara|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”116″ name=”Vitit Kantabutra, Ph.D. ” sub_title=” Computer science” description=”Dr. Kantabutra is an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Idaho State University in Pocatello. He earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has well-cited research publications in many areas, including databases, algorithms, VLSI (digital circuit design), computer arithmetic, computational geometry, neural networks, and most recently, GIS and the digital humanities. Dr. Kantabutra is the recipient of 5 U.S. patents.” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fidahostate.academia.edu%2FVititKantabutra|title:Vitit|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”124″ name=”Fernando Feliu-Moggi, Ph.D.” sub_title=”Spanish literature and paleography)” description=”Dr. Feliu-Moggi, who received a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor of languages and Cultures specializing in Latin American and translations studies. He has produced more than 25 volumes of translations of academic and literary texts, including translations from medieval Catalan and Spanish texts. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uccs.edu%2Flangcult%2Ffernando.html|title:Fernando|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”126″ name=”Marciano Martín Manuel, Lic.” sub_title=”Sephardic Jewish history” description=”Marciano de Hervás (Marciano Martín Manuel), nacido en Hervás en 1957, especializado en el área de investigación en la historia y la cultura del pueblo judío extremeño. Ha colaborado en las revistas Sefarad, Revista de Estudios Extremeños y Revista de Estudios de Salamanca. Licenciado por la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, en la rama de Imagen, antigua sección de Cinematografía. Alterna las actividades del cine y teatro hasta 1987, que se dedica a la investigación de la historia de las comunidades judía y conversa en la Alta Extremadura. Publica habitualmente sus trabajos en las revistas científicas Sefarad, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, Cartas de Jerusalén, Revista de Estudios Extremeños, Revista de Estudios de Salamanca y revistas judías de Bruselas, Francia y Estados Unidos. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Festudiosjudaicos.imaginason.com%2F|title:Marciano|target:%20_blank”][/lab_team_members]
[/lab_heading][lab_team_members hover_bg=”#ada187″ img_size=”1200×1900″][lab_team_members_member image=”102″ name=”J. B. Owens, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Spanish history and geographic information systems” description=”Dr. Owens is a research professor of geographically-integrated history, Idaho State University. He has published two books and numerous articles on Spanish history; he was a pioneer in the use of the Internet for teaching (since 1994); and he created the first graduate program in the discipline of History that was based on the use of geographic information systems (GIS). He received a senior summer stipend and a full fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow, and he has been awarded two large grants from the National Science Foundation ($400,000 and $1.3 million). ” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fidahostate.academia.edu%2FJBJackOwens|title:owens|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”104″ name=”Sara Irina Fabrikant, Ph.D. ” sub_title=”Geographic information visualization” description=”Dr. Fabrikant is a professor of geography and the head of the Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis unit at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. She earned her Ph.D. in geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her research and teaching interests lie in geographic information visualization and visual analytics (geovis), GIScience and cognition, graphical user interface design and evaluation, including dynamic cartography. She is currently the elected chair of the commission on Cognitive Visualization of the International Cartographic Association. She publishes in a variety of GIScience/geovis related journals and is currently a member of seven editorial boards (i.e., Annals, CEUS, etc.), in addition to her program committee memberships for various international GIScience/geovis related conferences (i.e., GIScience, COSIT, InfoVis (UK), etc.). ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.uzh.ch%2F~sara%2Fpersonal%2FH_O_M_E.html|title:Sara|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”116″ name=”Vitit Kantabutra, Ph.D. ” sub_title=” Computer science” description=”Dr. Kantabutra is an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Idaho State University in Pocatello. He earned his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has well-cited research publications in many areas, including databases, algorithms, VLSI (digital circuit design), computer arithmetic, computational geometry, neural networks, and most recently, GIS and the digital humanities. Dr. Kantabutra is the recipient of 5 U.S. patents.” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fidahostate.academia.edu%2FVititKantabutra|title:Vitit|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”124″ name=”Fernando Feliu-Moggi, Ph.D.” sub_title=”Spanish literature and paleography)” description=”Dr. Feliu-Moggi, who received a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, is Associate Professor of languages and Cultures specializing in Latin American and translations studies. He has produced more than 25 volumes of translations of academic and literary texts, including translations from medieval Catalan and Spanish texts. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uccs.edu%2Flangcult%2Ffernando.html|title:Fernando|target:%20_blank”][lab_team_members_member image=”126″ name=”Marciano Martín Manuel, Lic.” sub_title=”Sephardic Jewish history” description=”Marciano de Hervás (Marciano Martín Manuel), nacido en Hervás en 1957, especializado en el área de investigación en la historia y la cultura del pueblo judío extremeño. Ha colaborado en las revistas Sefarad, Revista de Estudios Extremeños y Revista de Estudios de Salamanca. Licenciado por la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, en la rama de Imagen, antigua sección de Cinematografía. Alterna las actividades del cine y teatro hasta 1987, que se dedica a la investigación de la historia de las comunidades judía y conversa en la Alta Extremadura. Publica habitualmente sus trabajos en las revistas científicas Sefarad, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, Cartas de Jerusalén, Revista de Estudios Extremeños, Revista de Estudios de Salamanca y revistas judías de Bruselas, Francia y Estados Unidos. ” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Festudiosjudaicos.imaginason.com%2F|title:Marciano|target:%20_blank”][/lab_team_members]