Department of History

Professor Goldberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of merchants in the Islamic and Italian eastern Mediterranean of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Recent research interests have led her to study the practical minutiae of how business, manufacturing, and trade worked; ideas and practices of both religious and secular law; and merchants’ ideas of region, regional identity and market spaces. She has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and she was a 2012 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Goldberg’s book, Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza merchants and Their Business World, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

The talk is made possible by the Bruce I. Greenberg Endowment in Jewish Studies and is co-sponsored by The Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

You may view a postcard for the event at http://www.jst.ufl.edu/images/goldberg_postcard.jpg