Curriculum Vitae

This list includes the major awards, publications, and creative endeavors of Division of the Humanities faculty members from the 2013-2014 academic year (July 1 to June 30). All faculty members are listed with their rank and title as of June 30 of that year.

Art History

Niall Atkinson,

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History, was awarded a fellowship from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to participate in the Kress Summer Institute on Digital Mapping and Art History. He received funding from the UChicago Arts Council and Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize the symposium Florentia Illustrata: Video Games, Mobile Apps, Pub Crawls, and the Florentine Renaissance with Lawrence Rothfield (Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature).

Claudia Brittenham,

Assistant Professor in Art History, published The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (University of Texas Press, 2013), which she coauthored with Mary Miller.

Chelsea Foxwell, Assistant Professor in Art History, received funding from the UChicago Arts Council Course Arts Resource Fund and a grant from the UChicago Committee on Japanese Studies.
Cécile Fromont,

Assistant Professor in Art History, received the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board’s Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Brazil. She was also awarded the Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowship in Music, Religion, and the Arts. She received the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss Publication Grant, as well as grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and France Chicago Center to organize a conference with Emily Osborn (Associate Professor of African History).

Matthew Jesse Jackson,

Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Arts, received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in Fine Arts for a series of events concerning art and the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama. He exhibited Our Literal Speed at the Bergen Triennial in Bergen, Norway, and collaborated with Yuri Albert on What Did the Artist Mean By That? at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Aden Kumler, Associate Professor in Art History, was awarded the UChicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.
Christine Mehring,

Professor in Art History, was awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for the Chicago Objects Study Initiative, a collaboration between UChicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University; Art History colleague Richard Neer was the joint principal investigator on the project.

Richard Neer,

the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and Cinema and Media Studies, was awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for the Chicago Objects Study Initiative, a collaboration between UChicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University; Art History colleague Christine Mehring was the joint principal investigator on the project.

Wu Hung,

the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Baoshan Liao mu: cailiao yu shidu (Two Liso tombs at Baoshan: Evidence and interpretation) (Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 2013), which he wrote with Li Qingquan, and coedited Gudai muzang meishu yanjiu, di er ji (Studies on ancient tomb art, vol. 2) (Changsha: Hunan meishu chubanshe, 2013). He delivered the keynote lecture for the conference “Villes en ruines : images, mémoires, metamorphoses” in conjunction with the exhibition Masterpieces of Chinese Painting at the Louvre and the V&A Museum in London. Additionally, he curated Inspired by the Opera: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video at the UChicago Smart Museum of Art and Myth/History, the inaugural exhibition of the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, and was the cocurator of Yang Fu Dong: East of the Que Village at UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts.

Rebecca Zorach,

Professor in Art History and Romance Languages and Literatures, was the Clark Visiting Professor at Williams College during the 2013–14 academic year. She curated AFRICOBRA: Philosophy, named one of the 10 best exhibitions of the year by the Chicago Tribune.

Cinema and Media Studies

Xinyu Dong, Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, curated the Chinese Opera Film Series at the UChicago Film Studies Center.
Judy Hoffman,

Professor of Practice in the Arts in Cinema and Media Studies, was the co-organizer for the festival Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel.

Daniel R. Morgan,

Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, curated Cinema and Painting at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.

D. N. Rodowick,

the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and Visual Arts, published Elegy for Theory (Harvard University Press, 2014) and a new edition of The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory (Routledge, 2013). He received a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for his project Overlay, a collaboration with visual artist Victor Burgin.

Classics

Michael I. Allen,

Associate Professor in Classics, received the Foederverein der Theologischen Hochschule Fellowship.

Clifford Ando,

the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Classics, History, and Law, published a paperback edition of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (University of California Press, 2013).

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer,

the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, delivered the keynote lecture at the 16th Annual Comparative Literature Conference at the University of South Carolina.

Helma Dik,

Associate Professor in Classics, released the digital project Logeion as an app for iOS and Android.

Christopher Faraone,

the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in Classics, published The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic and Mystery in Ancient Greek Selinous (Oxford University Press, 2013), which he edited with Dirk Obbink. He received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies–Paris and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jonathan Hall,

the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and History, published Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian (University of Chicago Press, 2014). He also edited the second revised edition of A History of the Archaic Greek World (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).

Michèle Lowrie,

Professor in Classics, was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich. She received grants from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Thinking through Tropes faculty seminar and Political Theology faculty working group. She published Denkfiguren für Anselm Haverkamp / Figures of Thought for Anselm Haverk (August Verlag, 2013), which she edited with Eva Horn.

Comparative Literature

Françoise Meltzer, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, delivered the keynote address at UChicago’s Humanities Day in 2013.
Haun Saussy,

University Professor in Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, edited Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines: Literature with Other Arts (Peter Lang, 2014).

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Michael K. Bourdaghs,

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published a translation of Kōjin Karatani’s The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange (Duke University Press, 2014).

Kyeong-Hee Choi,

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded a 2013 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Jacob Eyferth,

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for 2013–14. He also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Knowing and Doing: Text and Labor in Asian Handwork,” a collaborative research project with Donald Harper (Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies in East Asian Languages and Civilizations).

Donald Harper,

the Centennial Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Knowing and Doing: Text and Labor in Asian Handwork,” a collaborative research project with Jacob Eyferth (Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations).

Paola Iovene,

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press, 2014).

Ming Li, Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program.
Edward Shaughnessy,

the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Unearthing the Changes (Columbia University Press, 2014). He was appointed as a visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the 2013–14 academic year and also presented the third annual Jao Tsung-I Lecture at the University of Hong Kong.

Youqin Wang,

Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published a translation of A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979) (Documentation Center of Cambodia, 2014).

Judith Zeitlin,

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from the UChicago Center in Beijing. She also received a grant from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for “Imagining the Sounds of the Late Ming Pipa” and was awarded a grant from UChicago’s Center for East Asian Studies to support choreographer Jamie Guan’s residency and master classes in conjunction with Court Theatre’s production of M. Butterfly. She received a Confucius Institute exhibition grant to support Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture at the UChicago Smart Museum of Art, which she also curated and for which she published an accompanying catalog. She received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society to continue work on ”The Voice Project,” a collaboration with Martha Feldman, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music.

English Language and Literature

Lauren Berlant,

the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, published Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press, 2014), which she wrote with Lee Edelman. She delivered the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture at Brown University and participated in two conferences focusing on her work at the University of Dublin and Mills College. She received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures for the Comedic,” a project with Zachary Cahill (Lecturer in Visual Arts) and Catherine Sullivan (Associate Professor in Visual Arts).

David Bevington, the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature, was named an Honorary Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Bill Brown, the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor of American Culture in English Language and Literature, delivered the keynote lecture for the Charles F. Fraker conference at the University of Michigan.
Timothy Campbell,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for the PhD seminar Time Out of Mind: Arts and Sciences of Material Duration.

James Chandler, the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hillary Chute,

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Comics and Media: A Critical Inquiry Book (University of Chicago Press, 2014), the latter of which she edited with Patrick Jagoda, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature. She delivered a Distinguished Faculty Lecture at New York University with Alison Bechdel and organized WORDLESS!, an event with Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston, which was supported by UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities, Humanities Visiting Committee, Arts Council, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Deputy Provost for the Arts. She also received a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program and curated 100 Butches, Pregnant Butch, and Stealth at the UChicago Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Maud Ellmann,

the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English Language and Literature, published The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). She was appointed Visiting Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Swansea in Wales, United Kingdom, and delivered the keynote lecture at the Virginia Woolf Conference at Loyola University Chicago.

Patrick Jagoda,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Comics and Media: A Critical Inquiry Book (University of Chicago Press, 2014), which he edited with Hillary Chute (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature). He also published a special issue of New Media and American Literature (Duke University Press, 2013), which he edited with Tara McPherson and Wendy H. K. Chun. He released the digital project Nexus X: A Speculation Archive and helped to create The Source, an alternate-reality game produced by the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC), a collaboration with Melissa Gilliam (Professor in the Biological Sciences Division). GCC received support from a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, an EAGER Grant from the National Science Foundation, a Compton Foundation Grant, the Hive Learning Network Grant from the Chicago Community Trust, an UChicago Arts|Science Faculty Collaboration Grant, a Travel and Partnership Planning Grant from UChicago Center in Delhi, a research grant from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee, and the funding from the UChicago Innovation Exchange. Jagoda also received a course development grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for the PhD seminar Network Aesthetics | Network Cultures.

Loren A. Kruger,

Professor in English Language and Literature, published Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing and Building Johannesburg (Oxford University Press, 2013). She received a course enhancement grant from the UChicago Arts Council and delivered the Comparative Drama Distinguished Scholar Lecture at Western Michigan University.

W. J. T. Mitchell,

the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature and Art History, published a Polish translation of What Do Pictures Want? and a Turkish translation of Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society and was awarded the College Art Association’s Teaching Award in Art History. He received a grant from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee for research and publication and also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society to codirect the research project “Art and Public Life” with Theaster Gates.

Benjamin Morgan, Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, was awarded a 2013–2014 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities. He also received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society / Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities for research in Edinburgh.
John Muse,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Julie Orlemanski,

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, was the Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2013–14.

Srikanth Reddy,

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, published “Monsoon Eclogue” in The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013).

Lawrence Rothfield,

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received a course development grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for Technologies of Visualization: Florence Then and Now. He also was awarded a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society to direct the research project “The Past for Sale: New Approaches to the Study of Archaeological Looting and the Illicit Trafficking.” He received funding from UChicago’s Arts Council and Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize the symposium Florentia Illustrata: Video Games, Mobile Apps, Pub Crawls and the Florentine Renaissance with Niall Atkinson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History.

Richard Strier,

the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the summer seminar George Herbert and Emily Dickinson.

Kenneth W. Warren,

the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, served as president of the Henry James Society. He published Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013), which he edited with Tess Chakkalakal.

Germanic Studies

Catherine Baumann, Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies, received a grant from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation for the Chicago Language Symposium.
David J. Levin,

the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, published Opera Quarterly 29.1: Recovered Voices (Oxford University Press, 2013), which he edited with Ken Reinhard.

Eric L. Santner,

the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies, delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley.

David E. Wellbery, the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, received the TRANS-COOP Grant from the Humboldt Foundation for an international research collaboration with Christoph König.

Linguistics

Diane K. Brentari,

Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for “Models of Handshape Articulatory Phonology for Recognition and Analysis of American Sign Language,” a collaborative research project with Jason Riggle (Associate Professor in Linguistics).

Amy Dahlstrom,

Associate Professor in Linguistics, published Plains Cree Morphosyntax (Routledge, 2013).

Anastasia Giannakiudou,

Professor of Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago’s Richard And Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for a joint research project on bilingualism with Na’ama Rokem (Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations).

John A. Goldsmith, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics and Computer Science, delivered the 2014 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture at UChicago.
Lenore Grenoble,

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics in Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013–14 as well as the American Councils for International Education’s ACTR/ACCELS Title VIII Research Scholar Award for “Contact-induced change and attrition: assessing the impact of Russian.” She published Language Typology and Historical Contingency (John Benjamins Press, 2013), which she edited with Balthasar Bickel, David A. Peterson, and Alan Timberlake. She was the keynote speaker at the Foundation for Endangered Languages Annual Conference at Carleton University, the centenary celebration of the Slavic Department at Leiden University, and the Cambridge Endangered Languages Conference at Cambridge University, and was named the Cornell University ’79 Distinguished Classmate.

Chris Kennedy,

Professor of Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the research project “Subjectivity in Language and Thought” with Malte Willer (Assistant Professor in Philosophy).

Fidele Mpiranya,

Lecturer in Linguistics, published Swahili Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2014).

Salikoko Mufwene,

the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, published Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (University of Chicago, 2014) and Colonisation, globalisation et avenir du français (Odile Jacob, 2014), which he edited with Cécile B. Vigouroux.

Jason Riggle,

Associate Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for “Models of Handshape Articulatory Phonology for Recognition and Analysis of American Sign Language,” a collaborative research project with Diane Brentari (Professor in Linguistics).

Alan Yu,

Associate Professor in Linguistics, published Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Music

Philip Bohlman,

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, received a 2013–14 fellowship from the Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was also named Franz Rosenzweig Gastprofessor in den Humanwissenschaften at Univerität Kassel in Kassel, Germany. He edited The Cambridge History of World Music (Cambridge, 2014).

Amy Briggs,

Lecturer in Music and Artist in Residence, was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and University Symphony Orchestra.

Seth Brodsky,

Assistant Professor in Music, exhibited the sound installation Even in Arcadia, there I am at the Play as Inquiry practicum at UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

Anthony Cheung,

Assistant Professor in Music, was awarded funding from the New Music USA Composer Assistance Program to premiere SynchroniCities with the Talea Ensemble. He also won the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, Commission, and received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. His commissioned composition Bagatelles premiered at the Heidelberger Frühling festival, and his piece Lyra was premiered by the New York Philharmonic.

Martha Feldman,

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music, received a book subvention from the Gustave Reese Endowment of the American Musicological Society and book publication support from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee Fund. She received funding from the UChicago Provost’s Office for the documentary Put it On: Performing Arts and Education with the University of Chicago’s Contempo.

Philip Gossett, the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Music, received a Packard Humanities Institute Grant to support the UChicago Center for Italian Opera Studies.
Travis A. Jackson,

Associate Professor in Music, received an honorable mention for the Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding English Language Monograph from the Society for Ethnomusicology for Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (University of California Press, 2012).

Robert L. Kendrick,

Professor in Music, published Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week (Music and the Early Modern Imagination) (Indiana University Press, 2014).

Kaley R. Mason,

Assistant Professor in Music, received a special project grant from the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies for a series of workshops. He was also elected president of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music.

Marta Ptaszynska,

the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, published Red Rays for Flute and Piano (Cracow: Polish Music Publications, 2013). She received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was awarded the Gloria Artis from the Secretary of Arts and Culture in Poland for outstanding achievement in the arts.

Shulamit Ran,

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was the composer in residence at Steans Music Institute and Weekend of Chamber Music Concerts. She published Hallel for Organ (Theodore Presser Company, 2014). Her composition “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory—String Quartet No. 3” was premiered by UChicago resident performers the Pacifica Quartet and her “Birds of Paradise” was premiered by the Chicago Flute Club.

Steven Rings,

Associate Professor in Music, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. He was named editor of Oxford Studies in Music Theory.

Anne W. Robertson,

the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, delivered the plenary address at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University.

Augusta Read Thomas,

University Professor of Composition in Music, was awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. She premiered several compositions in 2013–14: “Saxophone Concerto” at the New Haven Symphony, “Bassoon Concertino” at the Double Reed Society Conference, “Starlight Ribbons” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theatre, and “Twilight Butterfly” at UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts. Her piece “Of Paradise and Light” was performed by the All-Star Orchestra on PBS, and her piece “Resounding Earth” was performed at the Chamber Music America Conference. Additionally, the New Haven Symphony did a complete concert of her works, and she delivered the 2014 Spring Commencement Address for the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign’s School of Music.

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Ahmed El Shamsy,

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Cornell Fleischer,

the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received the Turkish Presidential Order of Merit.

Saeed Ghahremani,

Senior Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2013) and received UChicago’s Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.

McGuire Gibson,

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, delivered the 22nd annual Sabbagh Lecture at the University of Arizona. He also served as president for the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq.

Petra M. Goedegebuure,

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern languages and Civilizations, served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Chicago chapter.

Kay Heikkinen,

Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published The Woman from Tantoura: A Palestinian Novel, a translation of a novel by Radwa Ashour (American University in Cairo, 2014).

Franklin D. Lewis,

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published a translation of Ma’sumeh Shirazi by Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh entitled Ma'sumeh of Shiraz (Association for the Study of Persian Literature, 2013).

Farouk Mustafa,

(pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab), the Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, posthumously published Rain Over Baghdad: An Egyptian Novel, a translation of a novel by Hala El Badry (American University in Cairo, 2014).

Tahera Qutbuddin,

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published a translation of A Treasury of Virtues (New York University Press, 2013).

Robert K. Ritner,

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri (Signature Books, 2013).

Na’ama Rokem,

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. She also received a grant from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for a joint research project on bilingualism with Anastasia Giannakiudou (Professor of Linguistics).

David Schloen,

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, cocurated In Rememberance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East at UChicago’s Oriental Institute.

Philosophy

Daniel Brudney,

Professor in Philosophy, was awarded the University’s 2014 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He also received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the symposium Is Health Care a Human Right?

James Conant,

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy, published Friedrich Nietzsche: Perfektionismus & Perspektivismus (Konstanz University Press, 2014) and received the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He published Varieties of Skepticism: Essays after Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell Berlin in the Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research series (Walter De Gruyter, 2014), which he edited with Andrea Kern. He was codirector of the FAGI Institute for Analytic German Idealism at the University of Leipzig and participated in a colloquium on his work at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

Arnold I. Davidson,

the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, published Religión, razón y espiritualidad (Alpha Decay, 2014) and edited Lectures on the Will to Know (Lectures at the Collège de France) by Michel Foucault (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He was awarded the Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Minister of Education and honored with the Membro Honorario del Corpo Accademico at the Università Ca’Foscari Venezia.

Ben Laurence,

Assistant Professor in Philosophy and the College, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Ben Laurence,

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, received a 2013–14 residential fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Gabriel Richardson Lear, Professor in Philosophy, received a grant from the Teagle Foundation for “Core Curricula in the Research University: Challenges and Prospects,” a collaborative initiative between UChicago, Columbia University, and Yale.
Marko Malink,

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, published Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic (Harvard University Press, 2013). His article “A Method of Modal Proof in Aristotle,” written with Jacob Rosen, was chosen as one of the 10 best philosophy papers published in 2012 by The Philosopher’s Annual.

Raoul Moati,

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, published Derrida/Searle, Deconstruction and Ordinary Language (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Derrida et le langage ordinaire (Hermann, 2014). He received a postdoctoral grant from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Robert J. Richards,

the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor in History, Philosophy, and Psychology, published Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Josef Stern, the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy, received grants from UChicago’s Beijing Center, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the France Chicago Center, and the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund. He also served as the Honorary President of the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism.
Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Philosophy, received a grant from the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education for the Chicago Moral Philosophy seminar.
Malte Willer,

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. He also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Subjectivity in Language and Thought,” a collaborative research project with Chris Kennedy (Professor of Linguistics).

Romance Languages and Literatures

Irena Cajkova,

Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, translated Matěj objevuje (Meander Publishing, 2014) and Deník kapitána Arsenia (Meander Publishing, 2014).

Frederick de Armas,

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, received the Consolider Grant (Spain) for “Patrimonio teatral clasico espanol.” He was elected Honorary President of the Early Modern Text and Image Society and was invited by Queen Sofia of Spain to present his research.

Daisy Delogu, Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, received a book publication subvention from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee.
Philippe Desan,

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Montaigne: une biographie politique (Odile Jacob, 2014) and Cités humanistes, cités politiques (Presses de la Sorbonne, 2014), which he edited with Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and Denis Crouzet.

Alison James,

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited Frontières de la Non-Fiction: Littérature, Cinéma, Arts (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013). She was awarded grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and France Chicago Center to plan the conference Fiction/Non Fiction: The Uses and Truths of Literature. She also received a grant from the UChicago Arts Council.

María Cecilia Lozada, Senior Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for “The Emergence of Institutionalized Male Conflict in Southern Peru.”
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2013), which she edited with Angela Rosenthal.

Miguel Martínez, Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a 2013–14 residential fellowship at Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library.
Alice McLean, Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, received a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program.
Robert J. Morrissey,

the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published a new translation of The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon (University of Chicago Press, 2014). He was named Chevalier, Légion d’Honneur of the French Republic and received a National Endowment for the Humanities “Digging into Data” grant for “Commonplace Cultures,” a collaborative project with Oxford University.

Thomas Pavel,

the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, published The Lives of the Novel (Princeton University Press, 2013), which received the American Publishers’ PROSE Award in Literature and was listed as one of the best books in literary criticism of 2013 by The New Yorker.

Rocco Rubini,

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited The Renaissance from an Italian Perspective: An Anthology of Essays, 1860–1968 (Longo Editore, 2014). He received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the research project “Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical.”

Justin Steinberg,

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Dante and the Limits of the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities and was named associate editor of the journal Dante Studies.

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Robert Bird,

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies, published Letters to Dagmar (1920–1926) (Russkii put’, 2014), a collection of writings by Konstantin Bal'mont that he edited with Farida Tcherkassova.

Victor Friedman,

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics, was awarded the 2014 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund to plan the 19th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference.

Lenore Grenoble,

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Angelina Ilieva, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago’s Arts Planning Council and a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program.
Kinga Kosmala, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received grants from UChicago’s Center for the Study of Languages and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She was also awarded a Chicago Course Connection grant from the UChicago Chicago Studies Program and an Excellence in Teaching Award from Northwestern University’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
William Nickell,

Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, exhibited Sanatorium: Sochi and Battle Creek on the Crossroads of Medical History at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Chicago.

Nada Petkovic, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning.
Valentina Pichugin, Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning.
Bożena Shallcross,

Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a Polish translation of Bjørnar Olsen's W obronie rzeczy. Archeologia i ontologia przedmiotów (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2013).

Malynne Sternstein,

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received grants from UChicago’s Humanities Visiting Committee, Center for Disciplinary Innovation, and France Chicago Center. She was awarded a grant from the UChicago Committee for the Study of Gender and Sexuality to plan the Contemporary Horrors conference and a grant from the UChicago Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies to support the Medieval Slavic Studies collection in honor of Frantisek Svejkovsky.

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Muzaffar Alam, the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, delivered the Carl Becker Memorial Lecture at the University of Northern Iowa.
Steven Collins,

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Self and Society: Essays in Pali Literature 1988–2010 (Silkworm Books, 2014) and delivered the annual Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Lecture at Carleton University.

Whitney Marshall Cox,

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, edited Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India (Institut Français de Pondichéry/École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013).

Thibaut d'Hubert,

Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler Grant for Research Travels from the UChicago Committee on South Asian Studies. He also received a grant from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize a conference on his research project “A Worldwide Literature: Jāmī (1414–1492) in the Dār al-Islām and Beyond,” which is supported by UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Additionally, he was awarded a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the Zukunftsphilologie Berlin.

Philip C. Engblom, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler Grant for Research Travels from the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies.
Jason Grunebaum,

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, published the translation The Walls of Delhi (Seven Stories Press, 2014).

Visual Arts

Zachary Cahill,

Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures of the Comedic,” a collaborative research project with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature) and Catherine Sullivan (Associate Professor in Visual Arts). He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Richard And Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, and the Center for Interdisicplinary Research on Germanic Literature and Culture to support the symposium Unsuspending Disbelief: The Subject of Pictures. He also received grants from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and the Arts Council's Course Arts Relief Fund to support his Mental Space seminar. He exhibited Snow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, USSA 2012 at the KW Institute in Berlin, and participated in the eighth Berlin Biennale.

Katherine Desjardins,

Lecturer in Visual Arts, had a solo exhibit Corporeo/Incarnato at Salone La Stanzetta in Rome, Italy.

Amber Ginsburg,

Lecturer in Visual Arts, was the artist in residence at High Concept Laboratories in Chicago.

Shane Huffman,

Lecturer in Visual Arts, exhibited Be silent unless what you have to say is better than silence at Paul Kotula Projects and 100 100s on the One and a Half at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Laura L. Letinsky,

Professor in Visual Arts, curated the Why Marriage exhibition at the Darst Center in Chicago, and exhibited Tableware and some pictures in Paris, London, Hong Kong, and Chicago; Creases Turn Sour in Boston; Still in Austria; Still Life Lives at Fitchburg Art Museum; New Art on the Silk Road at Xinjian Bienalle, China; and Outdoor Disco at Valerie Carberry Gallery.

Geof Oppenheimer,

Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts, exhibited Solo-Monsters, Ratio3 in San Francisco.

William Pope.L,

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, published a second edition of Black People Are Cropped: Skin Set Drawings, 1997–2011 (JPR/Ringier Press, 2013). He exhibited Claim at the Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Colored Waiting Room at the Mitchell-Innes and Nash Gallery in New York City, and A Long White Cloud at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Auckland, New Zealand. He also performed Cage Unrequited at the Performa 13 Biennial and Pull! in Cleveland, Ohio.

Jason Salavon,

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts, had one of his pieces acquired by the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Springs, Florida. He exhibited The Top 100,000,000 at Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas, and Rainbow Aggregator in the Moving Image Exhibit at Mark Moore Gallery in New York.

David Schutter,

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts, exhibited What Is Not Clear Is Not French at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago.

Jessica Stockholder,

the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts, won the 2014 Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She delivered the 2014 Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and gave keynote addresses at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference and the 41st Annual Gathering of the National Council of Arts Administrators. She exhibited at the 1301PE Gallery in Los Angeles and the Barbara Edwards Gallery in Calgary, Canada, and her exhibition Glimpse was shown at the Galleria Raffaella Cortese in Milan, Italy.

Catherine Sullivan,

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, was awarded a fellowship from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for an opera collaboration with composer George Lewis and director Sean Griffin. She received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures of the Comedic,” a collaborative research project with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature) and Zachary Cahill (Lecturer in Visual Arts). Her exhibit Image of Limited Good, a collaboration with Valerie Snobeck (MFA’08), appeared in the Frieze Art Fair and at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2014 Biennial, both in New York City.

Scott Wolniak,

Lecturer in Visual Arts, won UChicago’s Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy. He exhibited Fields at the Valerie Carberry Gallery in Chicago and Surface (New Drawings) at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. His painting New American Paintings—No. 107 was the juror’s pick of Eric Crosby, assistant curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.