Daniel Magilow

Professor Magilow received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in German from Princeton University. Before coming to UT, he taught briefly at the University of North Texas and, during the 2005-2006 academic year, worked as the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. 

Aside from Holocaust Studies and German-Jewish Studies, His research interests focus on Weimar and Nazi Germany and the history of photography. He has several forthcoming articles about Holocaust photography and Holocaust memorials and is currently finishing a manuscript about photographically-illustrated books in interwar Germany. 

Dr. Magilow has also received several awards and grants, including a DAAD Research Grant in 1999-2000, a teaching award from the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, and a grant from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to study Yiddish at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies’ first Intensive Yiddish Course for Holocaust Studies at Indiana University.  His article, “Error Correction and Classroom Effect” was named Best Article of the Year in Die Unterrichtspraxis for 1999 the American Association of Teachers of German.

Contact Information

Daniel Magilow
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
705 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-7163
E-Mail: dmagilow@utk.edu