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Bruce Masters

John E. Andrus Professor of HistoryShow Bio and Photo

Core Faculty

Abderrahman Aissa

Adjunct Instructor in ArabicShow Bio

Peter Gottschalk

Professor of ReligionShow Bio and Photo

Dalit Katz

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion and Israel StudiesShow Bio

Anne Peters

Assistant Professor of GovernmentShow Bio

Magda Teter

Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish StudiesShow Bio and Photo

Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies
860-685-5356

Professor of History
222 Church Street 203
860-685-5356

Chair, Medieval Studies Program

Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-5356

Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
860-685-5356

mteter@wesleyan.edu

MA Warsaw University
MA Columbia University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University

Fall 2011

COL409 - 30
Senior Thesis Tutorial

FGSS409 - 07
Senior Thesis Tutorial

HIST157 - 01
Soph. Sem.:History of the Book

HIST248 - 01
Jewish History Modern

HIST409 - 19
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

FGSS410 - 08
Senior Thesis Tutorial

FGSS420 - 01
Student Forum

HIST202 - 01
Early Modern Europe

HIST410 - 04
Senior Thesis Tutorial

RELI396 - 01
Performing Jewish Studies

Personal Web Site:
http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesdays 10-12 and Thursdays 2:30-4.

Research Interests:
As a scholar of Jewish history, eastern European history, and of early modern religious and cultural history, I specialize in Jewish-Christian relations. My first book, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 (pbk, 2009), challenges the perception that the Catholic Church triumphed in Poland and demonstrates the superficiality of the re-Catholicization of the ruling elites, whose economic interests trumped their religious loyalties. My new book, Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, 2011) tells a story of affirmation of Catholic dogmas after the Reformation, not necessarily though religious education and propaganda but through the application of criminal law, and the courts' treatment of "the sacred" and, thus, also of the "sacrilege." The book addresses one of the most notorious examples of "sacrilege" -- the accusation that Jews desecrated consecrated communion wafers. "Sinners on Trial" combines political, legal, and cultural historical approaches. Far more than the Church's efforts to educate the laity, the lay courts' classification of Catholic spaces as the only "sacred spaces" and their adjudication of crimes of "sacrilege," were crucial for the (re)Catholicisation of Poland, and the shaping of the country's religious identity. "Sinners on Trial" crucially casts a new light on the most infamous case of sacrilege, the accusations against Jews for stealing and desecrating the host, situating it within a broader context of the politics of crime -- most specifically that of sacrilege, illuminating its post-Reformation character.

Scholarly Keywords:
Early modern history, Jewish history, Poland, religious history, gender, eastern Europe, historiography

Academic Associations:
Association for Jewish Studies, American Historical Association, Sixteenth Century Studies, American Catholic Historical Association, Church History, AAUP

Lab URL:
http://www.earlymodern.org

Publications:
http://mteter.web.wesleyan.edu/mteter_publications.htm

RECENT PUBLICATIONS Books: Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006; pbk 2009) Coedited with Adam Teller, Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland, vol. 22, (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010, released Nov. 2009) Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (Harvard University Press, Spring 2011). Articles: "'There Should Be No Love between Us and Them': Social Life and the Bounds of Jewish and Canon Law in Early Modern Poland," in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Early Modern Poland, eds. Adam Teller and Magda Teter (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009), 249-70. Co-authored with Adam Teller, "Introduction: Borders and Boundaries in the Historiography of the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth," in Polin: Social and Cultural Boundaries in Early Modern Poland, eds. Adam Teller and Magda Teter (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009), 3-46. "Crime and Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Poland," a chapter in a book Kommunikation durch symbolische Akte. Religivse Heterogenitdt und politische Herrschaft in Polen-Litauen [Communication through symbolic acts. Religious heterogeneity and political Rule in Poland-Lithuania], ed. Yvonne Kleimann (Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, Germany, 2010), 171-90. "Ritual Murder Accusation," in The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture edited by Judith Baskin (forthcoming, 1160 words) Co-authored with Debra Kaplan (Yeshiva University), "Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Methodological Remarks on Jews in Early Modern Europe," in Sixteenth Century Journal 40 no. 2 (2009): 365-93. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert: articles: "Conversions," "The Ezofowicz Family," "Ger Zedek," "The Helicz Family" (with Edward Fram), "Judaizers," "Katarzyna Malcherowa Weigel" (New Haven: Yale University Press, in 2008), 489, 348-351, 590-91, 710-11, 834-35, 2011-12. "Negotiating the internal and the external, or on the contextualization of pre-modern Ashkenazi Jewry," Review essay on Joseph M. Davis, Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth Century Rabbi, in Jewish History 21 no.? (2007): 217-32. With Edward Fram, "Apostasy, Fraud and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow," AJS Review 30 no. 1 (2006): 31-66 "The Legend of Ger Zedek (Righteous Convert) of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance," AJS Review 29 no. 2 (2005): 237-63 With Edward Fram, "Matai nosad ha-defus ha-`ivri be-Qraqov?" [Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?], Gal-`Ed 20 (2005): 144-49 "Kilka uwag na temat podzia&#322;sw spo&#322;ecznych i religijnych pomi&#281;dzy &#379;ydami i Chrze&#347;cijanami we wschodnich miastach dawnej Rzeczpospolitej" [Polish: Some Remarks on the Social and Religious Divisions between Jews and Christians in Eastern Towns of Premodern Poland], Kwartalnik Historii &#379;ydsw [Quarterly of Jewish History, Warsaw, Poland] 207 no. 3 (September, 2003): 327-36 "Jewish Conversions to Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Jewish History 17 no. 3 (2003): 257-83

David Beveridge

Joshua Boger University Professor of the Sciences and MathematicsShow Bio and Photo

Affiliated Faculty

Attiya Ahmad

Assistant Professor of ReligionShow Bio

Susanne Fusso

Professor of Russian Language & LiteratureShow Bio and Photo

Annalise Glauz-Todrank

Visiting Assistant Professor of ReligionShow Bio

Bernardo Gonzalez

Professor of Romance Languages & LiteraturesShow Bio and Photo

Phillip Wagoner

Professor of Art HistoryShow Bio and Photo

Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Ave 311
860-685-3779

Professor, Archaeology Program
860-685-3779

pwagoner@wesleyan.edu

BA Kenyon College
PHD University of Wisconsin

Fall 2011

ARHA181 - 01
Mughal India:Intro Art History

ARHA286 - 01
Empire And Erotica

ARHA409 - 06
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Spring 2012

ARHA410 - 05
Senior Thesis Tutorial

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: On Sabbatical

Research Interests:
Phillip B. Wagoner's research focuses on the cultural history of the Deccan region of South India, primarily in the late medieval and early modern periods (1200-1600). His primary interest is in the historical interactions between the region's established Indic culture and the Persianate culture that arrived when the Delhi Sultanate annexed the region in the early fourteenth century. To study the dynamics of this process, he relies on a broad range of literary, epigraphic, architectural, and archaeological evidence, gathered over the course of numerous trips to the field since the early 1980s. Since 1987, he has been associated with the Vijayanagara Research Project, an international team of scholars in different disciplines dedicated to documentation and interpretation of the site of Vijayanagara, capital of the state that dominated the southern part of the Indian peninsula between the 1340s and 1565. This work has led to the publication of two books; one on late sixteenth-century understandings of Vijayanagara based on a Telugu historiographic text written in the region some 35 years after the collapse of the state (Tidings of the King: a Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1993), and the other a 3-volume work presenting comprehensive architectural documentation of the over 400 temples and other structures preserved in one key zone of the site (co-authored with George Michell,Vijayanagara: Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies and Manohar, 2001). He has also published numerous articles on various topics relating to Vijayanagara, including the pre-Vijayanagara history of the site, the reuse of architectural components retrieved from earlier buildings, the system of elite dress at the Vijayanagara court, the ability of political elites to move between the Indic and Persianate worlds, and the significance of Sanskrit historiographic traditions that represent Vijayanagara as a successor state to the Delhi Sultanate. Since 2000, his work has increasingly focused on Persianate Islamic architecture in the Deccan, and his articles have dealt with topics ranging from the first appearance of Sultanate style architecture in the region in the early fourteenth century, to the founding and design of Hyderabad, laid out as a new capital by the Qutb Shahi sultans in the late 16th century. He is currently completing a book, co-authored with historian Richard M. Eaton, titled Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600.

Scholarly Keywords:
South Asian and Islamic art history, South Indian cultural history, buildings archaeology and urbanism, Telugu language and literature