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About Magda Teter

Magda Teter is Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair of Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge, 2006), Sinners on Trial (Harvard, 2011), which was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Prize; Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth (2020), Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023), and of dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. Her essays have also appeared in the New York Review of Books, Public Seminar, the JTA, and others. Her book Blood Libel won the 2020 National Jewish Book Award, The George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association, and the Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society. Teter is the recipient of prestigious fellowships, including from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the NEH. She has served as the co-editor of the AJS Review and as the Vice-President for Publications of the Association for Jewish Studies. Teter is currently the President of the American Academy for Jewish Research.
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Positions

2015 - Present Professor of History, Fordham University ‐ History
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2015 - Present The Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies, Fordham University ‐ History
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2011 - 2015 Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies, Wesleyan University
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2011 - 2015 Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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2010 - 2014 Director of Jewish and Israel Studies Program, Wesleyan University
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Jewish history, Early Modern European History, Book History, and Historiography
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Honors and Awards

  • 2017-2018, Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL
  • 2016, appointed a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research
  • 2014 Honorable Mention in the Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History category of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards by the Association for Jewish Studies for Sinners on Trial
  • 2012, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
  • 2012, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
  • 2007-8, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
  • 2007, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
  • 2004-5, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York), The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship
  • 2003-4, Yad Hanadiv/Berakha Foundation Fellowship (Israel)
  • 2003, The Koret Foundation (San Francisco), Jewish Studies Publication Prize

Links

Contact Information


Fordham University-Rose Hill,
Department of History,
609 Dealy Hall,
441 East Fordham Rd,
Bronx, NY 10458

Fordham University-Lincoln Center,
Department of History,
Lowenstein 414C,
113 W 60th St,
New York, NY 10023

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