Team

The Urarina Digital Heritage Project is an international collaborative effort involving member of the Urarina community, researchers in Peru, and faculty, librarians, museum staff and technologists in the U.S. The team will continue to evolve as the project moves into new phases.

Core Phase 1 Team

Bartholomew C. Dean. Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas and research affiliate at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Tarapoto, Peru), where he directs the Anthropology Section of the Regional Museum

Emanuel Fabiano. Researcher, Center for Social Studies University of Coimbra and research affiliate at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Department of Social Science

Sylvia Fernández. Assistant professor in Public and Digital Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio

Brian Rosenblum. Digital Humanities Librarian, KU Libraries and Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas

Emma Bruce (2021-22). Anthropology student.

Urarina Community Members

Gilberto Inuma Arahuata. FEPIURCHA President

Samuel Nuribe Arahuata. Teacher

Daniel Nuribe Arahuata. Teacher

Mukurtu Team, Washington State University

Michael Wynne. Digital Applications Librarian in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) at Washington State University.

Anastasia Tucker (2021-22). Education and Outreach Archivist, Washington State University.

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

Cassandra Mesick Braun (2021-22). Curator, Global Indigenous Art

Angela Watts. Collection Manager

Celka Straughan. Deputy Director for Public Practice, Curatorial and Research, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs

This pilot project has been supported by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kansas.