Magda Teter grew up in Cold-War Poland. She received an M.A. from the School of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She currently teaches at Wesleyan University, where she arrived in 2000. She specializes in early modern religious and cultural history, with emphasis on Jewish-Christian relations in eastern Europe, the politics of religion, and transmission of culture among Jews and Christians across Europe in the early modern period. Her research takes her to different archives in Europe, among them the Secret Vatican Archives and the Vatican Library. In addition to her books, she is author of 15 articles in English, Polish, and Hebrew, and has delivered over 40 conference papers and invited talks. Her work has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2012), the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (in 2007 and 2012), the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, YIVO Institute, and the Yad Ha-Nadiv Foundation (Israel), among others. In 2002, she was a Harry Starr Fellow in Jewish Studies at Harvard University, and in 2007-2008, an Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies also at Harvard University. She serves on the editorial boards of Polin, the Sixteenth Century Journal, the AJS Review, and is co-founder and editor of the Early Modern Workshop (http://www.earlymodern.org), which includes historical texts and videos of scholars discussing them.