PhD Candidate working on the interplay of gender, violence, and political culture in the high and late medieval Mediterranean.

Jessica’s dissertation, “Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Abduction and Imprisonment in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1450,” traces the captivity of a collection of Mallorcan and Sicilian queens during Aragon’s expansion in the Mediterranean world.

Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean, Southern Italy, and Iberia.