Magda Teter

Magda Teter grew up in Cold-War Poland. Teter holds M.A. in Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now Professor of History and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of "Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland" (Cambridge, 2006), "Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation" (Harvard, 2011), which was a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Prize, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of An Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard, 2020), "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism" (Princeton, 2023), and of dozens of articles in English, Hebrew, Italian, and Polish. 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.