Volumes

Brown, Michelle P. and Jessica J. Lockhart, eds., The Early Illustrated Apollonius of Tyre: Studies of a Sinai Palimpsest, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 32 (Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2025). https://www.barkhuis.nl/product/the-early-illustrated-apollonius-of-tyre/

Moreton, Melissa and Suzanne Conklin Akbari, eds. Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book. De Gruyter, 2026. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783689240011. Edited volume coming out of the Book and the Silk Roads’ Textiles in Manuscripts workshop exploring global book culture through textiles found in, on, around, and with books across Eurasia, Africa, the Middle and Near East.

Sienna, Noam. Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds. Indiana University Press, 2025. https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/1no0b6e/alma991107439932406196

Articles and Chapters

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin. “Belongings: At the Humboldt Forum.” The Brooklyn Rail. October 2023. https://brooklynrail.org/2023/10/art/Belongings-At-the-Humboldt-Forum

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin. “Exile, Diaspora, and Sovereignty: Rethinking the Medieval Canon on Indigenous Lands.” ELH 91, no. 4, 2024: 1055–81. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2024.a945313.

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, Ian McCallum, Melissa Moreton and Anu Vedantham. “Huluniixsuwaakan: The Role of the Library in Munsee Delaware Language Revitalization and the Development of Community Relationships on Lunaape Land.” Library Trends Journal 72, no. 1, 2023: 122-148. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2023.a938215 

Goodman, Amanda, and Jessica Lockhart. "Displays of Devotion: On the Uses (and Reuses) of Illustrated Buddhist Prints from Tenth-Century Dunhuang." manuscript cultures 24, 2024: 91–140. https://doi.org/10.15460/mc.2024.24.1.3

Grieggs, Samuel, Jessica Lockhart, Alexandra Atiya, Gelila Tilahun, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Eyob Derillo, Jarod Jacobs, Christine Kwon, Michael Gervers, Steve Delamarter, Alexandra Gillespie, and Walter Scheirer. “Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, 2023. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/3/000682/000682.html

Mattison, J. R. and Alexandra Gillespie. “Books and Materiality.” In Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature in a Trans-European Context, 1100-1500. Eds. Sif Ríkharðsdóttir and Raluca Radulescu. London, Routledge. 2023. DOI: 10.4324/9780429197390-5

Sargan, J. D., Jessica Lockhart, Andrew Nelson, Deborah Meert-Williston, Alexandra Gillespie. “The Ghosts of Bindings Past: Micro-Computed X-Ray Tomography for the Study of Bookbinding.” Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, vol 11, no. 1, 2022, pp. 142–173. DOI: 10.1353/dph.2022.0009

Sharp, Alice Hutton, Sarah Fiddyment, Anne Lama, Jessica Lockhart, Deborah Meert-Williston, Melissa Moreton, Lauren Williams, and Alexandra Gillespie. “What’s Hiding in the Spine? A Study of Adhesives in Medieval Books Using Mass Spectrometry.” Manuscripta, vol. 66, no. 1, 2022, pp. 97–123. DOI: 10.1484/J/MSS.5.134726 

Sienna, Noam. “‘Their Battlefield is Eight upon Eight’: A Newly-Discovered Hebrew Poem on Chess (T-S Misc. 17.60).” Featured post on the Cambridge University Genizah Research Unit website, Nov. 2025: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fotm-2025/fragment-8 

Sienna, Noam. “Tsena U-Re’ena (Go Out and See): The World of Jewish Books.” In Early Modern Jewish Civilization: Unity and Diversity in a Diasporic Society: An Introduction, edited by David L. Graizbord. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003168270

Forthcoming Work

Di Cresce, Rachel and Melissa Moreton. “Making the Book Visible: Visualization Tools, Descriptive Terminology, and the Development of a Methodology for the Study of Global Book History.” Approaches to Digital Codicology: Interdisciplinarity and Intersections. Brepols. Submitted to editors - expected in 2026.