2019–21
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation (Israel), Caesarea Maritima Project (above $815,000 for NYU Tel Aviv)
2010–13
Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities, Emory University
2010–11
Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Spring 2011, Research Group: “Jewish languages” “History of Judeo-Arabic”
2009–10
Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
“Jewish Sacred Texts from Egypt”
Emory University Research Committee
Research leave and funding, “Jewish Sacred Texts from Egypt”
Emory College Research Grant in Humanistic Inquiry
“Sacred Texts: The Tradition of Šar? in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic”
Emory Woodruff Funds
Grant to participate in European Association of Jewish Studies Meeting, Ravenna, Italy
2008–09
Emory University
Associate Professor Book Completion Leave, Spring 2008
Emory Woodruff Funds
Grant to participate in NAPH meeting, London, UK
2006–07
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in NAPH Meeting, Sydney, 2007
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), The Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA), Emory University
Outstanding Contribution to Study Abroad, 2006
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in European Association for Jewish Studies Meeting, Moscow, 2006
2005–06
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Visiting Skirball Fellow, February – July, 2005
2004–05
Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory University
The Halle Institute Emory Faculty Trip to India, January 2005
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
The ICIS International Teaching Award, 2004
2003–04
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in Lenguas en contacto de la Antiguedad a la Edad Media, Madrid
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in Jewish Languages as Translation Languages, Jerusalem
2002–03
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant to participate in the European Association of Jewish Studies, Amsterdam
2001–02
Emory University Research Committee
Grant to fund phonetic transcriptions for CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant, the pilot of CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
Jewish Studies Enrichment Fund, Emory University
Grant for CoSIH: The Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew
1998–99
The Institute of International and Comparative Studies (ICIS), Emory
Grant for the Tuscan Word Center workshop on Corpus Design, 1999
1997–98
The Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award
The university most prestigious award for teaching, 1998
University International Travel Grants
Funds to participate in AÏDA, Malta, 1998
University Teaching Committee Award
Developing the course, “The American Languages,” 1997
1995–96
Social Science Research Council
“Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Religious Translations,” Cairo, Egypt and Jerusalem, Israel, 1995
1994–95
Emory University Research Committee
Travel grant for “Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Religious Translations”
The International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization under the auspices of the President of Israel
Grant to participate at the Workshop on “The Place of Classical Hebrew in the Teaching of Modern Hebrew,” 1994; also in 1990–91
Emory University Summer Faculty Development Award, 1994
Emory University Research Committee Grant for “Studies in Egyptian Judeo-Arabic Šar?,” 1993
1987–94
Emory University Subvention grant; University Research Committee for research leave; summer faculty development awards
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
International fellowship in Jewish Studies, 1990–91
1978–86
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (two), 1985–87
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Doctoral Scholarships (four), 1979–84
The University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Teacher, 1983–84; development grants (two); travel grants (five); graduate fellowship