Jessica Goldberg’s research interests include the history of medieval trade, business, and industry, definitions of regions and regional identity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, epistolographic culture, and the idea and practice of law in medieval societies. She also maintains a strong interest in digital humanities, which has been methodologically important to much of her research. Her first book, Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and their Business World (2012) explores the nature and geography of the medieval Islamic economy. She is now working on a monograph on the emergence of Genoa in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and exploring the possibilities analyzing medieval contracts using natural language processing. She is an Associate Professor of History at UCLA.