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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.

Development 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 More info
  • Emanuel Fabiano. Researcher, Center for Social Studies University of Coimbra and research affiliate at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Department of Social Science More info
  • Sylvia Fernández. Assistant professor in Public and Digital Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio More info
  • Brian Rosenblum. Digital Humanities Librarian, KU Libraries and Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas More info

Urarina Community Members

  • Gilberto Inuma Arahuata. President of FEPIURCHA (Federación de Pueblos Indigenas Urarinas del Rio Chambira)
  • Samuel Nuribe Arahuata. Teacher
  • Daniel Nuribe Arahuata. Teacher

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

  • Angela Watts. Collection Manager More info
  • Celka Straughan. Deputy Director for Public Practice, Curatorial and Research, Andrew W. Mellon Director of Academic Programs. More info

Other contributors

  • Michael Wynne. Digital Applications Librarian in the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) at Washington State University. More info
  • Emma Bruce. Anthropology student (2021-22).
  • Carola Emkow. Linguist, Masters student of Latin American Studies and Indigenous Studies at the Univeristy of Kansas

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