Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby

Senior Academic

Honors, Citation Awards

  • 2021 Vatat Program and Rothschild Foundation: Movilim Ba'Accademia
  • 2017 Evelyn Metz Research Memorial Chair for the Arts
  • 2015 Ben- Gurion University, Best Teacher Award
  • 2014 Ben- Gurion University, Teaching Restriction- Scientific Production
  • 2009 Ben- Gurion University, Rich Foundation Prize
  • 2006 Ben- Gurion University, Best Teacher Award
  • 2005 Ben- Gurion University, The Toronto Prize
  • 2004 Ben- Gurion University, Best Teacher Award
  • 2001 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Best Teacher Award
  • 1994-1999 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Humanities Grant
  • 1993 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rector Prize
  • 1991-1993 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dean’s Grant
  • 1991 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Talmon Prize
  • 1988-1991 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dean’s Grant

Fellowships

  • 2022 The Cini Foundation, Venice, 3000$, Vittoria Branca Center
  • 2020 The Cini Foundation, Venice, 3000$, Vittoria Branca Center
  • 2015-2017 Gerda Henkel Fellowship, 12,000
  • 2015 The Cini Foundation, Venice, 3000$, Vittoria Branca Center
  • 2014 The Cini Foundation, Venice, 3000$, Vittoria Branca Center
  • 2012-2013 Harvard University, 5000$, Aga Khan Research for Islamic Architecture
  • 2010- 2012 Gerda Henkel Fellowship, 12,000$
  • 2006-2007 GIF- German Israeli Foundation, Young Scholar Fellowship, $ 40,000
  • 2004-2007 Ben- Gurion University, 80,000$, Alon Fellowship
  • 2002-2004 Ben- Gurion University, 40,000$, Kreitman Fellowship
  • 1999-2001 The Rothschild Foundation, 50, 000$, Hanadiv Fellowship
  • 1999-2000 Harvard University, 15,000 $, Post Doc Fellowship

Research Grants

  •  2010- 2013 ISF- Israeli Science Foundation, Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI), Subject: Niccolò. Guidalotto da Mondavio's Panorama of Constantinople, 3 years, Annual amount: 21,000$ (x 3 =63,000$)
  • 2014- 2016 ISF- Israeli Science Foundation, Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI), Subject: Reshaping Female Saints in Italian Art and  Preaching: St. Birgitta of Sweden, 3 years, Annual amount: 32,000$ (x3= 96,000$)
  • 2015 ISF- Israel Science Foundation, Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI) and Kogman-Appel K. (PI), Subject: Maps and Travel:  Knowledge, Imagination and Visual Culture, Workshop Grant, Annual amount: 25,000$
  • 2016 ISF- Humanities Book Publication grant for Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI), Crusade Propaganda in Word and Image, Toronto University Press, Annual Amount: 6500$
  • 2018 - 2021 ISF- Israeli Science Foundation, Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI), Subject: The Renaissance Baptismal Font, 3 years, Annual amount: 32,000$ (x3= 96,000$)
  • 2021-2025 ISF- Israeli science Foundation, Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI), Subject: The The Many Faces of Queen Esther in Italian Art, Drama and Sermons, 4 years, Annual amount: 34,000$ (x4=136,000$)
  • 2025- 2028 ISF- ISF- Israeli science Foundation, Ben-Aryeh Debby N. (PI), Subject: Exploring Faith and Vision in Early Modern Art and Sermons, 3 years, Annual amount: 34,000$ (x3=102,000$)