Jessica L. Minieri is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Binghamton University where she studies medieval Mediterranean history. She received her BA in History and Medieval/Early Modern Studies from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her MA in History from Binghamton University.

Her dissertation project, Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crowns: Imprisonment, Abduction, and the Expansion of the Crown of Aragon, 1280-1490, explores the histories of captivity, imprisonment, and forced marriage for royals in Aragonese controlled Mallorca and Sicily. This project explores the ways in which Aragonese territorial expansion was connected to the control of the bodies, marriages, and sexuality of royal and aristocratic figures in the Western Mediterranean.

Jessica has also published public facing blog work with the Ecclesiastical History Society, the Team Queens Project, the Medieval and Early Modern Orients Project (where she is also a copy-editor and team member), and Court Studies. You can also read her open-access book reviews with the Royal Studies Journal.