Fordham University’s faculty and staff remain leaders in their fields, innovating and making meaningful contributions across disciplines. Their dedication and expertise are regularly recognized with prestigious honors and awards. Take a look at the latest achievements from our community below.
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Saul Cornell, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History, received the Lepage Center Award for Historical Work in the Public Interest at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on Jan. 8. The association bestowed this award for directly influencing precedent-setting Supreme Court cases on gun safety by entering rigorously researched amicus briefs and expert witness reports into the legal record. Cornell’s historical gun laws database, how-to workshops, editorials, podcasts, and blogs were also cited in the award.
Carl Fischer, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, professor of Spanish, published a special issue of the journal Revista Iberoamericana titled “Latin American Authoritarian Aesthetics” in November. Together with Benjamin Loy of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, Fischer co-edited five articles in the Latin American literary and cultural studies journal, including one he wrote titled “Las ambigüedades autoritarias y la masculinidad estéril de la ‘trilogía del monoteísmo del poder’ de Augusto Roa Bastos” (Authoritarian Ambiguities and Sterile Masculinity in Augusto Roa Bastos’s ‘Trilogy of the Monotheism of Power’). The article, about Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos’s ambiguous approach to the authoritarian history of his country in three of his most important novels, was produced with the support of a Thyssen fellowship Fischer received in 2025 through Germany’s Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI).
Magda Teter, PhD, ARTS AND SCIENCES, Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and professor of history, was named the inaugural scholar-in-residence of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA). In five events sponsored by the YPSA this spring semester, Teter will aim to engage the Yale community and the general public in dialogue on antisemitism’s history, its spread today, and the challenges facing the field of antisemitism studies.
