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María Laura Flores Barba
María Laura Flores Barba is an art historian with a Bachelor's degree from the University of Guadalajara and a Master's from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is currently completing her PhD in Hispanic Studies at 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 coordinates the video editing team, does transcription and translation work, and is part of the massacre map team. In El Salvador, she has participated as a workshop facilitator and doing fieldwork for the massacre map.