Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Prof. Alexey Sivertsev, Jacob’s Dream: The Body and Its Image in Late Antique Jewish and Christian Narrative Spaces, 2021  
• Dr. Leor Jacobi, Christian Books Jewish Binders: Medieval Iberian Bookbindings as Objects of Jewish Art, 2021–2022

PhD Dissertations

• Dvori Karsh, Borders in Israeli Art since 1967 (with Dr. Mor Presiado), 2024
• Tami Lombard Kruger, Jewish Identity in the Artwork of Graduates of the National Religious High School in Israel (with Prof. Mirjam Rajner),
• Rachel Kupferman, Representation of Jews in Early Modern North-European Prints (with Prof. Mirjam Rajner, Bar-Ilan University), 2023
• Efrat Fridenzon-Harison, Amulets: Designing Mysticism in Contemporary Israel, (with Prof. Jonathan Ventura, Shenkar College), 2022
• Orna Segal, Art Teaching in National-Religious Education in Contemporary Israel: Theory and Practice (with Dr. Yitzhak Recanati), 2022
• Lilia Chack, Bio-art: Quand l’arbre devient l’oeuvre. Pratiques contemporaines (supervising the dissertation as a member of the Advisory Committee at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; supervisor: Prof. Olga Kisselev, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne),            2022      
• Judah Witelson, The Representation of Judaism in the Israeli Cinema from its Beginning to 2016 (with Dr. Mor Presiado, Bar-Ilan University), 2022
• Leor Jacobi, The Intrusion of Falconry in Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Art: Reading Medieval Culture into Ancient Sources (with Prof. Daniel Sperber, Bar-Ilan University), 2020
• Efrat Grossman, Design of Lettering in Ashkenazi Ultra-Orthodox Communities in Israel since the 1990s, 2020
• Guy Shaked, Music, Image and Text in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, 2020
• Nurit Sirkis Bank, Ceremony as Text: Contemporary Hassidic Weddings in Israel, 2018
• Zohar Shalhevet, Women Images in Visual Culture of Pre-State Israel in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, 2018
• Zvi Orgad, Eliezer-Zusman: An Eighteenth-Century Synagogue Painter at Work, 2014-2017
• Yael Ben-Zvi (Doron), “Behind the Gate”: The Nahum Gutman's Artistic Works in Light of H. N. Bialik's Literary Oeuvre, 2015 (with Prof. Hananel Mack, Bar-Ilan University)

M.A. Theses

• Maria Yutkin, The New Synagogue in Mainz: Light and Architecture, 2024
• Revital Burstein, Julian the Apostate and Messianism: Reconsidering the Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Huqoq Synagogue (Pre-PhD Thesis; with Dr. Eyal Baruch), 2024
• Tal Garmiza (Tel Aviv University), Wedding Stones in Synagogues of South Germany, 2020 (with Dr. Renana Bartal)
• Hadas Gabai, Esther Lurie (1913-1998): Holocaust and Israeli Woman Painter               (with Dr. Mor Presiado), 2019
• Shira Sak, Ephraim Moses Lilien's Two Illustrated Bibles, 2018
• Noa Tsaushu, Jewish Avant-garde between Text and Imagery: Pertz Markish's "Di kupe", 2015 (with Prof. Nathan Cohen, Bar-Ilan University)
• Inna Gorstein, Michael Yakhilevich: Restricted Self-Expression of a Jewish Artist in the Soviet Union and Israel, 2015
• Limor Kattan, Architecture of the Synagogues Built with the Assistance of Baron Benjamin Edmond de Rothschild in the First-Aliyah Colonies in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 2011
• Judith Bar-Ami, Siona Tagger, the Way towards the Triple Self-Implementation: A Woman, a Painter, and a Zionist, 2011 (with Prof. Margalit Shilo, Bar-Ilan University)