- 2021-2024: The Evolution of Attention
- 2020-2023: Past and Past Perfect
- 2019-2022: Setting Tables
- 2018-2021: In Someone Else's Shoes
- 2017-2020: Historical Linguistics and Formal Semantics
- 2016-2019: Materials for Change
- 2015-2018: Liturgy and Arts
- 2014-2017: A Question of Identity
- 2013-2016: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew
- 2012-2015: Picture Power
- 2011-2014: Eros, Family and Community
- 2010-2013: Archaeologies of Memory
- 2009-2012: Jews and Cities
- 2008-2011: The Interpretive Imagination
- 2007-2010: Knowledge and Pain
- 2006-2009: Religions of Place
- 2005-2008: Ascending and Descending
- 2004-2007: Education and Religion
- 2003-2006: The Jews between Minority and Majority Cultures: The Case of Byzantium
- 2002-2005: Modes of Canonization: The Case of the Cairo Genizah