• Abraham J. Berkovitz (REL): Presented a paper at the St. Andrews Symposium for Biblical and Early Christian Studies; dissertation research on Geniza 
• Yossi Harpaz (SOC): Dissertation research on dual citizenship in Bosnia, Israel and Mexico 
• Ari Lamm (REL): Greek language study, New York
• Daniel May (REL): Hebrew language study, New York and Israel
• Sheera Talpaz (REL): Arabic language study, Morocco
• Charlotte Werbe (FIT: Yiddish language study, Lithuania

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2013

• Mika Ahuvia (REL): Mount Menoiken Seminar
• Jose Araguez (ARC): German language study
• April Armstrong (REL): Dissertation research
• Yael Berda (SOC): Archival research in Israel
• AJ Berkovitz (REL): German language study
• Shira Billet (REL): German language study
• David Grossberg (REL): manuscript work in Berlin
• Ezra Tzfadya (REL)for Hebrew language study
• Mark Volovici (HIS):  Polish language study
• Charlotte Werbe (FRE): Hebrew language study
• Alexander Wamboldt (ANT): Dissertation research in Israel

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2012

• Mika Ahuvia: to attend the Budapest International SBL conference and a seminar at Central European University
• Yael Berda: dissertation research in Jerusalem
• James Casey: dissertation research
• Rachel Gross: dissertation research, visiting US synagogue museum sites
• Yossi Harpaz (Kwartler grant recipient): dissertation research in Israel
• Sarit Kattan: for Latin language study; attendance at the Enoch Seminar, University of Notre Dame
• Alex Kocar: dissertation research on Greek and Coptic papyri
• James Landsdowne: research in Israel and German language study at the University of Vienna
• Jessica O’Rourke Suchoff (Kwartler grant recipient): Hebrew language study at the Hebrew University
• Geoffrey Smith: research on Greek and Coptic papyri
• Ezra Tzfadya: Persian and French language study
• Marc Volovici: Polish language study, University of Krakow
• Alexander Wamboldt: dissertation research in Israel

 

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2011

• Mika Ahuvia (REL 2nd year) to study Late Antique Judaism at Tel Aviv University.
• April Armstrong (REL 3rd year) for research on Jewish/Baptist relations in late 1980’s.
• Yael Berda (SOC 4th year) to travel to Cyprus, India and Israel for dissertation research.
• Shira Billet (REL 1st year) for language study in Germany.
• David Grossberg (REL 1st year) for study of German and French.
• Alexander Kocar (REL 2nd year) for Coptic conference in Paris
• Jessica Marglin (NES 4th year) for dissertation research in France, Spain and England.
• David Moak (HIS 1st year) for research in Paris on Jewish citizenship during French Revolution.
• Geoffrey Smith (REL 3rd year) for travel to Gnostics conf. in Paris and research in Oxford.
• Ezra Tsfadya (REL 1st year) for research in Israel for paper on political theory.
• Alexander Wamboldt (ANT 1st year) for research in Israel and study of Bedouin Arabic.

 

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2010

• Mika Ahuvia (REL 1st year) for ancient Greek language course.
• Aryeh Amihay (REL 4th year) for dissertation research and travel to Germany to study German.
• April Armstrong (REL 3rd year) for research on Jewish and Southern Baptist interfaith relations in the late 1980’s.
• Yael Berda (SOC 3rd year) to travel to Cyprus, Israel, and London for dissertation research on the British colonial bureaucracy.
• Alexander Kocar (REL 1st year) for tutoring in Rabbinic Hebrew.
• Jessica Marglin (NES 3rd year) for summer research in France, Spain, and England on Jewish-Muslim legal relations in the nineteenth century.
• Leeore Schnairsohn (COM 5th year) to study Russian at Middlebury College.
• Geoffrey Smith (REL 2nd year) for tutoring in Rabbinic Hebrew.
• Erica Weiss (ANT DCE 1st year) for travel to Israel to do research on conscientious objectors.

 

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2009

• Mika Ahuvia (REL incoming 1st year) for German language course.
• Aryeh Amihay (REL 3rd year) for dissertation research at the National Library in Jerusalem.
• April Armstrong (REL 2nd year) for research on Jewish and Southern Baptist interfaith relations in the late 1980’s.
• Gregg Gardner (REL 6th year) for living expenses in Boston this summer while completing his dissertation.
• Rachel Gross (REL 1st year) for intensive study of Yiddish at the Vilnius Institute.
• Ronnie Halevy (ANT 4th year) to continue her fieldwork on the social changes for young Bedouin women in Israel.
• Lance Jenott (REL 4th year) to travel to Israel to the conference on martyrdom in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and hopefully to visit archeological sites and museums.
• David Jorgensen (REL 2nd year) to travel to Israel and Turkey, to the conference on martyrdom in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam at Hebrew University, and to visit archeological sites and museums.
• Ari Lieberman (COM 4th year) to travel to Israel for research on S.Y. Agnon at the National Library in Jerusalem and to study Yiddish at Tel Aviv University.
• Jessica Marglin (NES 2nd year) (Kwartler Fund) for summer research in Morocco on Jewish-Muslim legal relations in the nineteenth century.
• Eli Saks (REL 2nd year) to study Latin at CUNY to enable reading of philosophical discourse of the 18th century.
• Geoffrey Smith (REL 1st year) to research at the Bodmer Library in Geneva and at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid to study the Bodmer Codex.
• Erica Weiss (ANT 5th year) for dissertation fieldwork in Israel on public policy response to refusal to perform military service for reasons of conscience, and for study of Hebrew.
• Jennifer Wilson (SLA 1st year) for research in St. Petersburg, Russia, on the Jewish writers Isaac Babel and Sophia Parnok.

 

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2008

• Aryeh Amihay (REL 2nd year) to study Latin this summer.
• Sand Avidar Walzer  (ENG 1st year) to travel to Israel to study Yiddish at Tel Aviv University.
• Yaron Ayalon (NES 4th year) to travel to Israel to study manuscripts in Jerusalem of rabbinical primary sources written in Syria.
• Yael Berda (SOC 1st year) to travel to Israel to gather archival data to trace the bureaucratic history of post-independence Israel.
• Gil Gambash (CLA 4th year) to travel to Israel and Britain to further his research about the Roman provinces of Judea and Britain.  
• Gregg Gardner (REL 5th year) to travel to Israel to visit archaeological excavations for dissertation research.
• Ronnie Halevy (ANT 3rd year) to continue her research on the social changes for young Bedouin women in Israel.
• Sarit Kattan-Gribetz (REL 1st year) to travel to Israel for pre-dissertation research.
• Jessica Marglin (NES 1st year) to travel to Europe and Morocco to study in archives about Jewish-Muslim relations for her pre-dissertation research.
• Leeore Schnairsohn (COM 3rd year) to study Yiddish at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
• Bella Tendler (NES 4th year) to travel to Israel to attend summer school at Hebrew University.

 

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2007

• Aryeh Amihay (NES 3rd year) to travel to Israel to complete work on an edited book concerning the traditions about Noah in the post-Biblical world.
• Yaron Ayalon (NES 3rd year) to travel to France and Israel to research the Jewish communities in Ottoman Syria.
• Amir Goldberg (SOC 1st year) to travel to Israel to carry out research on the hi-tech industry there. 
• Ronnie Halevy (ANT 2nd year) to continue her research on the social changes for young Bedouin women.
• Eduard Iricinschi (REL 5th year) to travel to Greece, Turkey, and Egypt to study Coptic antique religious articles and manuscripts.
• Lance Jenott (REL 2nd year) to travel to Turkey and Greece to visit and study the ancient Greco-Roman archaeological sites, focusing on the religions and culture of Late Antiquity.
• Ari Lieberman (COM 2nd year) to travel to Israel to do research on the Israeli playwright, Hanoch Levin. 
• Leeore Schnairsohn (COM 2nd year) to travel to Jerusalem to study Hebrew.
• Uriel Simonsohn (NES 4th year) to travel to Israel for dissertation research on medieval texts at the National Library in Jerusalem.
• Alan Verskin (NES 3rd year) to study Persian at the University of Chicago and the University of California Los Angeles.
• Sara Verskin (NES 2nd year) to study Persian at the University of Chicago and the University of California Los Angeles.
• Moulie Vidas (REL 3rd year) for dissertation research at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the Jewish National and University Library in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 
• Erica Weiss (ANT 3rd year) for travel to Israel to study Hebrew at Hebrew University.
• Samuel Williams (ANT 1st year) to study travel to Israel for pre-dissertation research on minorities of the Ottoman Empire.

 

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2006

• Gregg Gardner (REL 3rd year) to study German at the Goethe Institute and to participate in an excavation in Appolonia.
• Ronnie Halevy (ANT 1st year) to study Arabic, the Bedouin dialect, and to do pre-dissertation research interviewing young Bedouin women.
• Eduard Iricinschi (REL 4th year) to travel to London, Berlin, and Egypt to study Coptic antique religious articles and manuscripts.
• Lance Jenott (REL 1st year) to study German in Berlin at the Freie Universitat.
• William Plevan (REL 3rd year) to study the Buber archives in Jerusalem.
• Rafael Segal (ARC 3rd year) for pre-dissertation research in Israel, relating to the work of Alfred Neumann, who investigated the application of scientific studies to architectural practices.
• Elizabeth Kessler (ART 2nd year) to travel to Exeter, U.K. to present a paper and to Polis, Cyprus to participate in an archaeological excavation.
• Uriel Simonsohn (NES 3rd year) to travel to Israel for dissertation research at The Jewish National Library in Giv'at Ram on the Geniza.
• Krisztina Szilagvi (NES 1st year) to study Geniza fragments in the Cambridge University Library.
• Adriana Tatum (COM 5th year) to travel to Israel to research the Israeli poet, Leah Goldberg for her dissertation.
• Moulie Vidas (REL 2nd year) for dissertation research at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the Jewish National and University Library in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Erica Weiss (ANT 2nd year) for travel to Israel to study Hebrew and to develop research ideas.
• Joseph Witzum (NES 1st year) to study Classical Greek at Columbia to enable him to read Christian Biblical Exegesis and compare it to the Jewish tradition.
• Natasha Zaretsky (ANT 6th year) to continue her research on Jewish memory in Argentina.
• Holger Zellentin (REL 5th year) for travel to Israel for dissertation research in the National Library in Jerusalem.

 

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2005

• Gregg Gardner (REL 2nd year) to take intensive Latin and Greek language courses at CUNY in order to continue his research into the literature and culture of the Jewish people in the Greco-Roman era.
• Adam Jackson (REL 1st year) to work at the Roman fort excavation site in Yotvata, Israel and continue his archival research on the Greco-Roman era in Rome and London.
• Kevin Osterloh (REL 5^th year) for dissertation research and writing on the general analysis of communal identity in 2^nd century BCE Rome.
• Rafael Segal (ARC 2^nd year) for pre-dissertation research in Israel, relating to the work of Alfred Neumann, who investigated the application of scientific studies to architectural practices.
• Jamie Sherman (SOC 2^nd year) for travel to Venezuela for language study and dissertation research to contact the Jewish communities of Caracas and Maracibo so as to develop a deeper understanding of the contours of Jewish life in Venezuela today.
• Maya Soifer (HIS 3^rd year) for archival work on the conversos of Spain, examining the relationship between the Jews of Burgos and Palencia and the royal, ecclesiastical, and urban institutions of Northern Castile.
• Adriana Tatum (COM 4^th year) to study Yiddish and to further her research on the poetics and politics of multilingual writing.
• Bella Tendler (NES 1^st year) to study Arabic at the ALIF School in Fez, Morocco, in order to enable her to read the classical texts dealing with Jewish-Muslim cross-fertilization, with a strong emphasis on religious jurisprudence.
• Philippa Townsend (REL 4^th year) for Hebrew Ulpan in Israel as well as to do research at archaeological sites and museums for her dissertation.
• Moulie Vidas (REL 1^st year) for dissertation research at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the Jewish National and University Library in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  His work will focus on rabbinic literature of late antiquity.
• Erica Weiss (ANT 1^st year) for Hebrew Ulpan in Israel as well as pre-dissertation research with minority Jewish populations, specifically the Mizrahim (Jews from Middle eastern countries).
• Jeris Yruma (HOS 3^rd Year) to study German and do dissertation research in Germany, which focuses on the discovery of fission, and more particularly on the story of Lise Meitner, who was heralded as “the Jewish mother of the atomic bomb.”

 

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2004

• Jesse Ferris (NES 2nd year) to fund pre-dissertation research in Israel and study Arabic.
• Eduard Iricinschi (REL 2nd year) to study intensive Hebrew at JTS.
• Gregg Gardner (REL 1st year) to participate in an excavation in Israel.
• Philip Lieberman (NES 2nd year) for archival research in Israel.
• Edward Muston (COM 1st year) for the study of exile literature in the Swiss National Museum.
• Kevin Osterloh (REL 4th year) for research and German language study.
• Jamie Sherman (SOC 1st year) for an ethnographic project in Morocco on the public lives of Jewish women and to study Arabic.
• Philippa Townsend (REL 3rd year) for study in Israel.
• Holger Zellentin (REL 3rd year) for dissertation research in the Netherlands and Germany.

 

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2003

• Jesse Ferris (NES 1st year) to fund research in Israel about the Sabra and Shatila massacres.
• Eduard Iricinschi (REL 1st year) to study intensive Hebrew at JTS.
• Devra Jaffe-Berkowitz (SOC, 3rd year) to fund her dissertation research on Jewish philanthropy.
• Kevin Osterloh (REL, 3rd year) to study artifacts in France and Germany.
• David Snyder (ARC 3rd year) to study the architecture of the Jewish ghettos in Warsaw and Prague.
• Adriana Tatum (COM 2nd year) for archival research in Israel.
• Keri Walsh (ENG 1st year) for intensive German at the Goethe Institute in Berlin.
• Natasha Zaretsky (ANT 3rd year) to continue her dissertation research in Argentina on the politics of Jewish memory in post-dictatorship Argentina.
• Holger Zellentin (REL 2nd year) for dissertation research in the Netherlands and Germany.

 

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2002

• E. Alyse Hubbard (SOC 1st year) studied Hebrew at the Brandeis Hebrew Language Summer Institute so that she could pursue her dissertation research on cultural reproduction within the Jewish communities of the United States and Israel.
• Devra Jaffe-Berkowitz (SOC 2nd year) received support for dissertation research on Jewish philanthropy.
• Natasha Zaretzky (ANT 2nd year) continued her dissertation research in Argentina on the politics of Jewish memory in post-dictatorship Argentina, and also studied Yiddish.