Reed O’Mara, a doctoral candidate in medieval art, is the featured researcher of the week on the Medieval Jewish Studies Now! — a news blog dedicated to providing current information on the developing state of medieval Jewish studies research. We seek to update our readers on Jewish studies research spanning the disciplines of medieval history, art, architecture, archeology, codicology, museology, geniza, and rabbinic literature. Click the link to read about her dissertation on the word and image relationships in Hebrew manuscripts.