Medardo Gabriel Rosario, Ph.D.
Founder
Medardo Gabriel Rosario is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at
Florida International University. He obtained a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in
Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico (2005) and a Master of Arts with a concentration
in Chemistry from Brown University (2006). Subsequently, he earned a Master of Arts with a
concentration in Hispanic Studies also from the University of Puerto Rico (2014) and a
doctorate in Hispanic and Portuguese-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago (2020).
His academic research revolves around two themes: the influence of Spanish Golden Age
literature in Latin America and representations of the Caribbean in cartography and literature
developed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Alexander S. Butler, Ph.D.
Design Director
Dr. Alexander S. Butler is an assistant professor of social studies methods and content in
Bowling Green State University's Inclusive Early Childhood Education Program and the Editor of
Trends and Issues in Social Studies, the Florida Council for the Social Studies' flagship
journal. His Ph.D. is from Indiana University in Curricula and Instruction with an emphasis on
Teacher Education and The Learning and Developmental Sciences.
He has extensive experience working with K-12 and higher education students in a variety of
contexts. He has been a classroom teacher, wrap-around service provider, coach, senior
instructional designer, and Director of the Master of Science in Curricula and Instruction
Social Studies Track at Florida International University. Additionally, he is an expert at
curricula development, having built curricula for K-12 schools, universities, and non-profit
organizations across the world (i.e., Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ghana, and U.S.).
Ra Bacchus, M.A
Technical Advisor
Ra Bacchus is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the University of Miami. He
earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors and a Master's in Anthropology from Stanford University
in 2018 and 2019, respectively. A budding digital humanist, Ra's projects with texts and
technologies advocate for interdisciplinary, multimodal, and affective ways of knowing from
the Black Atlantic. His academic research concerns a long history of "hallucinations," from
premodern anxieties to the postmodern rhetorics of machine learning and A.I.
