María Laura Flores Barba

María Laura Flores Barba is an art historian and digital humanist with a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Guadalajara (Mexico), a Master's degree in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and  a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Western University, Canada. Her interests are wide in range, but her research focuses mainly on material culture, the preservation of cultural heritage, and digital humanities. As a lead research assistant in the Surviving Memory project, she coordinated the video editing team  and did transcription and translation work . She started her involvement with the project In El Salvador, where she  participated as a workshop facilitator. As a postdoctoral scholar, she is part of the massacre map team as well as the virtual reconstruction project led by Zack MacDonald. She is also working on a crowdsourced photographic archive and as an editor for a book about the history of Copapayo with community leader Otilio Ayala.

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