Madhumita Chatterjee is a third-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the legal and economic lives of medieval Jewish traders operating across the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds, with particular attention to documentary sources from the Cairo Geniza. In her second year, she completed a master’s essay, titled Entangled Exchanges: The Futa Textile in Trade, Law, and Obligations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, c. 1000–1150, which examines the futa, a recurring textile object in Geniza records, as a lens into the intersections of commerce, law, and material culture in the medieval Islamic world. Prior to UVA, Madhumita earned a second master’s degree in Religion, with a concentration in Jewish Studies, from Vanderbilt University. Her thesis, Debt in the Geniza: ‘Witnessing’ Silences in the Jewish Credit System Through Legal Documents in Medieval Egypt (c. 1000–1150 CE), analyzed how legal documents reflect the tensions between normative frameworks and everyday economic practices.