My research on medieval Iberian material culture centers on Jewish bookbinders and the reuse of Hebrew and Latin manuscript fragments in bindings from Christian archival contexts, with particular emphasis on Catalonia and Girona. I treat bindings as primary historical evidence for cross-confessional craft economies, the circulation of texts, and the recovery of otherwise-lost Jewish writing. This approach integrates codicology, paleography, archival research, and visual analysis, reading structure, materials, and fragmentary texts together as a single historical dossier.

My published work on Girona book culture focuses on identifying Jewish binders, reconstructing workshop practices, and reading binding waste as an archive of multilingual drafting and documentary writing (e.g., “The Jewish Bookbinders of Girona”; “Appeals to Authority: Latin and Hebrew Drafts on a Girona Bookbinding Fragment”). A related line of inquiry uses fragment evidence to recover lost textual worlds and their local intellectual settings (“Revelation in Girona: Lost Literature from the ‘Jerusalem of Catalonia’”). Recent lectures and conference papers have extended this work to broader comparative frames, including “All Jewish Documents in a 14th-Century Girona Bookbinding” (EAJS Congress, Frankfurt, 2023), “From Catalonia to Yemen: Hebrew Manuscript Fragments and Jewish Bookbindings in the NYPL and around the World” (Fordham–NYPL, 2025), and “Bound in Catalonia: Jewish Bookbindings Produced for Christians as Historical Witnesses” (Courtauld, 2025).