Magda Teter

Historian

Magda Teter is a professor of history and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University, in New York. Her scholarship explores the historical roots and systemic impact of antisemitic tropes. She is the author of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (2023) and Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (2020), which won the National Jewish Book Award, the Ronald Bainton Prize (2021), and the George L. Mosse Prize (2021). She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. She has served as co-editor of the Association for Jewish Studies Review, vice-president for publications of the Association for Jewish Studies, and is president of the American Academy for Jewish Research.