People

Administration

Juan Cobo Betancourt

PI

Juan Cobo Betancourt is a historian of colonial Latin America and a scholar and practitioner of digital humanities and digital public history. He is associate professor of History at UCSB, where he serves director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program and Center for Latin American and Iberian Research. He is also co-founder of the Colombian non-profit Neogranadina. Learn more.

Eduardo Castro

Lab manager

Eduardo Castro is a PhD student in the Department of History at UCSB.

Researchers and collaborators

Adelaida Ávila

UX/UI, web design/development, and digital communication specialist, Neogranadina

Alicia Boswell

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB

Natalie Cobo

Burdick Fellow, UCSB; Affiliate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

María Lumbreras

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB

Jairo Melo Flórez

Digital Humanities Research Facilitator, UCSB Library

Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez

Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin; Co-founder, Neogranadina

Jeff O’Brien

Curator, Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL), Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB

Graduate Students

Lee Leal-Ramírez

MA student, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, UCSB

Liz Marchante

PhD student, Department of History, UCSB

Pilar Ramírez Restrepo

PhD candidate, Department of History, UCSB

Undergraduate Students

Gemma Acevedo

Research Assistant, Activating Archives Project, Fall 2025-

Sanjana Bhupathi

Research Assistant, Telar Project, Fall 2025-

Isabelle Gomez

Research Assistant, Activating Archives Project, Fall 2025-

Maggie O’Sullivan

Research Assistant, Collaborative Cataloging Project, Fall 2024-

Roland Vásquez

Research Assistant, Collaborative Cataloging Project, Winter 2024-

Ashley Vazquez

Research Assistant, Activating Archives Project, Fall 2025-

Alumni

Graduate Students

Camilla Falanesca

PhD student, Department of History, UCSB; lab manager, 2024-2025

Undergraduates

Benjamin Ancho

Research Assistant, People of Sondondo Project, Spring-Fall 2025

Saketh Ayinaparthi

Research Assistant, People of Sondondo Project, Spring 2025

Binta Barrie

Research Assistant, Memories of the City Project, Spring 2025

Isabel Cutts

Research Assistant, Memories of the City Project, Spring 2025

Olympia Marino

Research Assistant, Memories of the City Project, Winter-Spring 2025

Kepa Neesen

Research Assistant, Memories of the City Project, Winter-Spring 2025

Jennifer Ortiz

Research Assistant, Collaborative Cataloging Project, Fall 2024, Spring-Fall 2025

Piya Rao

Research Assistant, Memories of the City Project, Winter 2025-Spring 2025

Nicolás Sama

Research Assistant, Collaborative Cataloging Project, Fall 2024

Jermaine Smith

Research Assistant, Collaborative Cataloging Project, Winter 2024-Spring 2025

Noemi Ung

Research Assistant, Collaborative Cataloging Project, Fall 2024-Spring 2025

Dongchi Xue

Research Assistant, People of Sondondo Project, Spring-Fall 2025