Jarbel Rodriguez is a professor of history at San Francisco State University, where he teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Miami. Dr. Rodriguez is the author of Muslim and Christian Contact in the Middle Ages: A Reader; Captives and their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon; coauthor of Exchanges: A Global History, Volume I; and coeditor of Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz.