CV

Education

• Ph.D in Hispanic Studies, Western University, 2025
• M.A. in Art History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014
• B.A. in History, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2012

Work experience

• June 2025 - present: Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, London, ON
  • Duties includes: Conducting my research project “Rebuilding Memory, Shaping Futures” that includes activating a photo archive with the community, the virtual reconstruction of destroyed villages, co-authoring a book about the history of Copapayo with a community historian, and updating and managing the massacre map on ArcGIS
  • Supervisor: Amanda Grzyb
• Fall 2022: Lecturer
  • Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University, London, ON
  • Course: Baroque in Europe and the Iberian Territories
  • Duties: Lectures, lesson planning, rubric, activities, and course design, marking and grading, monitoring an online forum
• Fall 2017 - Winter 2022: Instructor
  • Department of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western University, London, ON
  • Courses: Spanish for Beginners and Intermediate Spanish
  • Duties: Lectures, marking and grading, designing teaching materials, creating oral exam rubrics
• Summer 2021 - Winter 2025: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, London, ON
  • Duties includes: Transcription and translation of testimones, coordination of the video editing team, facilitating workshops and other fieldwork in El Salvador, working on the backend of the massacre map on ArcGIS
  • Supervisor: Amanda Grzyb

Skills

• Teaching and Knowledge Mobilization (English and Spanish)
  • Course Design and Curriculum Development
  • Workshop Design and Facilitation
  • Student Engagement and Mentorship
  • Interdisciplinary Teaching
• Community-Engaged and Participatory Research
  • Community Archives
  • Oral History and Testimonial Research
  • Digital Heritage and Public History
• Digital Media Production
  • Digital Content Creation
  • Video Editing and Post-production
• Digital Humanities
  • Database Design
  • Data Modeling and Knowledge Organization
  • Digital Tools and Technologies
    • Data Management and Annotation: MySQL Workbench, OpenRefine, Recogito, Air Table, Tropy
    • Network Analysis and Visualization: Gephi, Flourish
    • GIS and Digital Mapping: ArcGIS, ArcGIS Storymaps, Survey123, Storymap JS
    • Web Publishing: GitHub, GitHub Pages, Jekyll, Markdown, Collection Builder

Publications

Historias ancestrales en tiempos digitales: narración digital, inteligencia artificial y educación patrimonial crítica en el aula ELE

Devo Colis, Alba and María Laura Flores Barba. (2026). "Historias ancestrales en tiempos digitales: narración digital, inteligencia artificial y educación patrimonial crítica en el aula ELE." In Nereida López Vidales, Alba Devo Colis and Teresa Fernández-Ulloa (eds.). Alfabetización mediática y ciudadanía en la era digital y de la Inteligencia Artificial. (Forthcoming)

De la narrativa documental al dato estructurado: anotación semántica con Recogito en un corpus de pintores coloniales en México

Flores Barba, María Laura. (2025). "De la narrativa documental al dato estructurado: anotación semántica con Recogito en un corpus de pintores coloniales en México". Publicaciones de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales, 6.

Digital Storytelling and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Project in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom

Devo Colis, Alba and María Laura Flores Barba. (2025). "Digital Storytelling and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Project in the Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom." In Teresa Fernández Ulloa, Alba Devo Colis (coords.), Innovación pedagógica y transformación digital en la enseñanza de la lengua, la literatura y la cultura hispánicas. United States: California State University, McEwan University, Western University, 37-47.

La luz como proyecto: vitrales y modernidad en Guadalajara

Flores Barba, María Laura. (2026). "La luz como proyecto: vitrales y modernidad en Guadalajara." In Ricardo Cruzaley (coord.), 100 años de la Comisión de Arte Sacro de Guadalajara. (Forthcoming).

Objetos elocuentes, colección reveladora: El Museo del Juguete Antiguo México

Flores Barba, María Laura. (2011). "Objetos elocuentes, colección reveladora: El Museo del Juguete Antiguo México." Discurso visual. Revista digital del Cenidiap, 17.

El obrador de la familia Cuentas en Guadalajara

Flores Barba, María Laura. (2010). "El obrador de la familia Cuentas en Guadalajara." Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, XXXI(95): 69-84.

Talks

Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2014

Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

February 01, 2014

Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK

Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2013

Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA

Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2012

Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA

Teaching

Teaching experience 2

Teaching experience 1

Service and leadership

• Organizing Committee Member, Mapping and Memory International Conference, Western University, 2026
• Co-organizer, Threads that Unite Us, October 2025 and March 2026. Contributed to the organization and coordination of two events that connected textile practices with the community
• Lead curator, Transcendent Memory: State Violence, Solidarity, and Community-Based Research, exhibition at Western University, 2026
• Member and co-organizer of the Mapping and Memory Research Group at Western University
• Peer Reviewer, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2026
• Peer Reviewer, Publicaciones de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales, 2026