Magda Teter, Chair of Medieval Studies, Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History, Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Elizabeth Willis, Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing, Professor of English, have both been awarded 2012 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. According to the Guggenheim Foundation, the prestigious academic honor is presented to scholars “who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Teter is the author of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Sinners on Trial (Harvard University Press, 2011), and a co-editor of…