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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 Zimmermann

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

Professor, Medieval Studies
860-685-5356

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

mteter@wesleyan.edu

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

Fall 2013

HIST247 - 01
Jewish History

HIST362 - 01
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST362 - 02
Issues Contemp Historiography

HIST362 - 03
Issues Contemp Historiography

Spring 2014

HIST267 - 01
Jews in Eastern Europe

RELI396 - 01
Performing Jewish Studies

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

Office Hours:

Fall 2013:

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 podziałsw społecznych i religijnych pomiędzy Żydami i Chrześcijanami 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 Żydsw [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

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aahmad@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Toronto
MA University of Toronto
PHD Duke University
Office Hours:
RELIGION Office Hours: Spring 2012 - Mon. 1:00-3:00 & by appointment

Susanne Fusso
Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian StudiesShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Fisk Hall 211
860-685-3123
sfusso@wesleyan.edu

BA Lawrence University
MA Yale University
PHD Yale University
Fall 2013
RUSS205 - 01
The 19th-Century Russian Novel
RUSS240 - 01
Reading Stories
Spring 2014
RUSS206 - 01
A Matter of Life & Death: Fict
RUSS252 - 01
Tolstoy
Personal Web Site:
http://sfusso.faculty.wesleyan.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment
Publications:
http://works.bepress.com/sfusso/

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aglauztodran@wesleyan.edu

BA Hampshire College
MA University Calif Santa Bar
PHD University Calif Santa Bar
Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Wednesday 3:00-5:00 & by appointment

Bernardo Gonzalez
Professor of Romance Languages & LiteraturesShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 202
860-685-3106
agonzalez@wesleyan.edu

BA University Calif Berkeley
MA University Calif Berkeley
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University Calif Berkeley
Fall 2013
SPAN221 - 01
Introduction to Hispanic Lits.
SPAN254 - 01
The World of Garca Lorca
Spring 2014
SPAN251 - 01
Urban Fantasies
SPAN258 - 01
The Intercultural Stage
Office Hours:
Tu: 1:15p - 2:00p; Th 9:00am - 10:00am
Research Interests:
Theater, ideology, and public institutions during the Spanish Second Republic Contemporary Spanish Theater
Scholarly Keywords:
Modern Spanish literature Modern Spanish theater
Academic Associations:
MLA
Asociacin International de Hispanistas
Editorial board, ESTRENO

Phillip Wagoner
Professor of Art HistoryShow Bio and Photo
Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Avenue 311
860-685-3779
Chair, Archaeology Program
860-685-3779
Professor, Archaeology Program
860-685-3779
pwagoner@wesleyan.edu

BA Kenyon College
PHD University of Wisconsin
Fall 2013
ARHA181 - 01
Mughal India:Intro Art History
ARHA286 - 01
Empire And Erotica
Spring 2014
ARHA290 - 01
Epic and Indian Visual Culture
ARHA383 - 01
Monument, Site, and Memory
Office Hours:
Most days and times available by appointment, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Room 311
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