Jessica L. Minieri is a PhD Candidate working on the interplay of gender, violence, and political expansion in the late medieval Mediterranean.

Her dissertation, Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Imprisonment, Abduction, and the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon, 1280-1490, traces the captivity of a collection of Mallorcan and southern Italian royals in Aragon’s transformation into a maritime empire between the War of the Sicilian Vespers and the union of Castile and Aragon.

Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean, the Italian South, and the Iberian Peninsula.