Education

:: 1958-1964 University of Basle, Switzerland, History of Art, Classical Archaeology.
Title of Doctoral dissertation: ''Die romanischen Wandmalereien der ehemaligen Abteikirche Saint-Chef Dauphine), supervised by Professor Joseph Gantner.
Dr. Phil. - Magna cum laude, 1964.

Academic and Professional Experience

:: 1964-1965 Research assistant, Kunstmuseum, Basle, Switzerland.

:: 1965-1967 Lecturer, History of Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

:: 1971-1972 Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

:: 1969-1974 Lecturer, History of Art, Tel Aviv University.

:: 1974-Senior Lecturer, Tenure, Tel Aviv University, History of Art.

:: 1975-1978 Chairperson, History of Art, Tel Aviv University.

:: 1982-1985 Chairperson, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

:: 1987 Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University.

:: 1987-1991 Chairperson, History of Art, Tel Aviv University.

:: 1991-1996 Dean, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University.

:: 1994 Professor of Art History, History of Art, Tel Aviv University.

:: April 1997 Incumbent of the George and Mary Bloch Chair for Comparative Art History.

:: 1996-2000 Head, Graduate School, Faculty of the Arts.

:: 2000-2002 Dean, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University.

:: 2007 Emerita.

Papers presented at Scientific Meeting and Abstracts since 1986

:: 1986  CIHA XXVI International Congress of Art History, Washington D.C.
Self Representations of Romanesque Sculptures.

:: 1989 23rd International Congress of Medieval Art, Western Michigan University. Organizer of two sessions: Manifestations of Lay and Popular Culture in Romanesque Art.
Paper: The Struggle and Triumph of Church and Burghers in the Romanesque Sculpture of Le-Puy Cathedral.

:: 1990  Contexts and Codes of Gothic Marginal Sculpture.
24th International Congress on Medieval Art, Western Michigan University.

:: 1990  Emotional Woman in Marginal Romanesque Sculpture.
78th Annual Conference of the College Art Association New York,  N.Y.

:: 1991 The Persistent Image of Marginal Women in Medieval Sculpture in France.
Matrons and Marginal Women. Penn State University, Medieval Institute, annual conference.

:: 1991  Popular Culture in Ecclesiastical Art. The Israeli Historical Society.

:: 1992  The ''Cry'' and the Image of Women in Early Medieval Art. Tel Aviv.

:: 1993   The Portal of St. John in Sens Cathedral. In 118e Congrès de Societés Historiques et Scientifiques. Pau, France.

:: 1994   Organizer of two sessions: Center and Periphery in Medieval Art. Chair
(Participation of 5 Ph.D. candidates, Tel Aviv University).
29th International Congress on Medieval Art, Western Michigan University

:: 1995   The Return of the Crusader, between Official and Popular culture.
International Congress of Medieval Studies.Leeds.LeedsUniversity, Center for Medieval Studies.

:: 1995   The Relationship between the Cathedral of Sens and Sebaste.
The 83 annual conference College Art Association, San Antonio, U.S.A.

:: 1995  The Miserables in the Cathedral: Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris.
In International Conference ''The Painted Word,'' Groningen University, The Netherlands.

:: 1996  Sculpture High Up: The Forgotten Meanings of Memorial Sculpture.
In: Memory and Oblivion: XXIX International Congress of Art History, Amsterdam.

:: 1998   Congresso internationale di studi storico artistici, Ariano  Irpino (Italy) 17-18 September 1998.
Paper : The crusades and the Holy land : Issues of artistic activity.

:: 1999  The metamorphosis of marginal images : From antiquity to present time.
Tel Aviv Uni. Kipp and Bloch chairs. January 1999.

:: 2001  Ravenna- Le copie dei mosaici medievali di San Giovanni Evangelista. April 2001.

:: 2002   International conference on design history and design studies. Istanbul 9-12 July 2002.
Paper : Center and Periphery - 3 generations of Armenian ceramics.

:: 2002 Culture Politique des Plantagenets (1154-1224). Colloques mai 2-5 2002.
Lecture : Eleonor of Aquitaine as patron of the arts. Poitiers , France. 

:: 2003  Colloque Internationale a la Conference de Moyen Age in Honor of the 50 years of the center. Poitiers, September 1-4.
Lecture : The murals in Chinon.

:: 2004 International conference : Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East.
"1204 and its historical memory".
Session : Commemorating the Crusade and artistic Patronage. Istanbul, Bogazici University, August 25-30 September.

:: 2004  Jerusalem and the Armenians, International Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles November, 5-7.
Paper: Three Generations of Armenian Ceramics Artists in Jerusalem, since 1919.

:: 2004 to the Present: Participation in numerous international and local conferences from Leeds and Poitiers to Jerusalem and Nazareth.

:: Obituaries

שני ליטמן, "מתה חוקרת האמנות נורית כנען-קדר", הארץ, נובמבר 2015.

תום לוי, "זוכרים ומזכירים: פרופ' נורית כנען-קדר ז"ל", יקינתון MB, גיליון 276 (דצמבר 2015), עמ' 18.

Christine Verzar, "Nurith Kenaan-Kedar - Obituary," International Center of Medieval Art Newsletter, December 2015.

נירית שלו-כליפא, "דברים לזכרה של נורית כנען-קדר", כתב עת לידיעת ארץ-ישראל, 33 (ינואר 2016), עמ' 127-126.

גיל פישהוף, "פרופ' נורית כנעו-קדר", מותר, 23-22 (2017), ע' 15-7.

ב"ז קדר, "נורית כנען-קדר, שותפתי למחקר".

"אמנות נוצרית בגליל - לזכרה של פרופ' נורית כנען-קדר, ידידת המכללה", מחקרים חדשים של הגליל, 2016.