Niall Atkinson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History, received the Villa I Tatti Prize for the Best Article by a Junior Scholar from the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies. He also delivered the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Lecture on Architecture at the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Curriculum Vitae
This list includes the major awards, publications, and creative endeavors of Division of the Humanities faculty members from the 2014-2015 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
Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor in Art History, published The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central (University of Texas Press, 2015). She received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Chelsea Foxwell, Assistant Professor in Art History, received support grants from Ritsumeikan University and the Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture for "Scrolling Paintings (Emaki) from the Kyoto Region: A Public, Online Resource for Students and Scholars." She also received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for Color and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Japan and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the History of Color as well as a Digital Media Grant from the Center from East Asian Studies to support digitization scholarship and online presentation of an album of woodblock prints in the Smart Museum of Art. She curated "Japan at the Fair, 1870–1920" in conjunction with the Smart's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices, and also co-organized the symposium Photography in East Asian Art at UChicago.
Cécile Fromont, Assistant Professor in Art History, published The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (Omohundro Institute Book Publication Program with the University of North Carolina Press, 2014). The monograph was listed as "One of Fifteen Outstanding Books of 2014 for Mission Studies" by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. It is also a finalist for both the American Academy of Religion Best First Book Prize and the Journal of African Religion Best Book Prize. Fromont received a UChicago Course Arts Resource Fund grant and an African Studies Faculty Small Grant. She organized the conference "Color in the Early Modern Atlantic World" and received funding support from UChicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, France Center Chicago, Norman Wait Harris Fund, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Center for Latin American Studies. Fromont also organized a conference at Yale University, "Afro-Christian Festivals in the Americas."
Matthew Jesse Jackson, Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Arts, received a studio fellowship from the Whitney Independent Study Program.
Aden Kumler, Associate Professor in Art History, was awarded a research leave fellowship for 2014–15 from Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and was elected Councilor of the Medieval Academy of America. She delivered the plenary address at the Medieval Materiality conference at the University of Colorado–Boulder. Kumler curated "Fragments of the Medieval Past" with Claire Jenson (graduate student in Art History) in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices.
Christine Mehring, Professor in Art History, received a grant from the UChicago Arts Council's the Course Resource Fund. She delivered the lecture "Concrete Traffic" for the MAPH Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series and also co-convened the conference "Salvage 2.1: Reanimation" at the Neubauer Collegium.
Richard Theodore Neer, the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, published the digital project "Greek Art and Archaeology" (Oxford University Press). He also delivered the Phyllis Lehmann Lecture on Classical Archaeology at Smith College.
Martha Ward, Associate Professor in Art History, was awarded the UChicago's 2014 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She also curated "War Portfolios in Teaching" in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices.
Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, published Contemporary Chinese Art: A History (London: Themes&Hudson, 2014); Rong Rong's East Village (Shanghai: Renmin chubanshe, 2014); and Liu Xiaodong: Art in Action (Shanghai: Renmin chubanshe, 2014). He curated Rong Rong's East Village at the Smart Museum of Art and Myth/History I and Myth/History II at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai.
Cinema and Media Studies
Thomas Gunning, the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, published The Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (University of Amsterdam Press, 2015). He also received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.
Judy Hoffman, Professor of Practice in the Arts in Cinema & Media Studies, received a grant from UChicago's Chuck Roven Fund for Cinema and Media Studies to organize a master class with film editor Sandra Adair.
Daniel R. Morgan, Associate Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, delivered the Media Aesthetics Distinguished Faculty Lecture.
D. N. Rodowick, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, published Philosophy's Artful Conversation (Harvard University Press, 2015) and Elegy for Theory (Harvard University Press, 2014); the latter won the Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for Outstanding Book in English Language Media Studies from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Rodowick also received a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship from UChicago's Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.
Yuri Tsivian, Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society for "Cinemetrics across Boundaries."
Jennifer Wild, Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, published The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900–1923 (University of California Press, 2015). She delivered the keynote addresses at the Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of Toronto and at the Expanded Writing Symposium at Michigan State University. Wild received support from UChicago's France Chicago Center for a visit and lecture by Dudley Andrew (Yale University).
Classics
Michael I. Allen, Associate Professor in Classics, co-edited Eriugena and Creation. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9–12 November 2012 (Brepolis Publishers, 2014) with Willemien Otten (Professor in the Divinity School). He received support from UChicago's Center in Paris, Late Antique and Byzantine Workshop, Medieval Studies Workshop, and Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize "Contemporary French Scholars on Classical and Medieval Texts."
Clifford Ando, the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Classics, published Roman Social Imaginaries (University of Toronto, 2015) and co-edited Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion (De Gruyter, 2015) with Jörg Rüpke (Universität Erfurt). He was the 2014–15 Lucy Shoe Merritt Scholar-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome and a visiting professor at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study in spring 2015. Ando delivered the Harry Carroll Lecture at Pomona College and organized the Chicago Paris Workshop on Ancient Religions at the UChicago Center in Paris, "The New Late Antiquity" at Universiteit Gent, and "Beyond Political Theology" at UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, published Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (Cambridge University Press, 2015) with Alessandro Schiesaro (Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza,' Italy). Bartsch-Zimmer also delivered the Renato Poggiolo Lecture at Harvard University.
Alain Bresson, the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), Gil Stein (Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Oriental Institute), and David Schloen (Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Oriental Institute). He organized the Onassis Lecture in Hellenic Culture at the University of Houston
Jonathan Hall, the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and History, delivered the C. Densmore Curtis Memorial lecture at Bryn Mawr College and the 2015 Zamanakos Lecture at University of Massachusetts–Lowell.
Michèle Lowrie, Professor in Classics, co-edited Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (Routledge, Law and Literature Series, 2015) with Susanne Lüdemann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).
Sofía Torallas Tovar, Associate Professor in Classics and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, co-wrote Greek papyri from Montserrat (P.Monts.Roca IV) (Barcelona, 2014) with K.A. Worp (Leiden University). She received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "The Transmission of Magical Knowledge: Magical Handbooks on Papyrus," a project with Chris Faraone (Professor in Classics). She also received a Recercaixa-Digital Humanities grant from Fundación la Caixa for "Tratamiento tecnológico de archivos digitales (imágenes y textos) de documentación papirácea antigua," a project with Alberto Nodar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), and organized the VI Conference of Spanish Papirology at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Comparative Literature
Boris Maslov, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical," a project with Rocco Rubini (Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures). He also co-organized "Prosody Today: Comparative Perspectives on the Study of Verse" at UChicago with Thomas Pavel (the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor of French Literature in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought) and co-organized "Formalism/Idealism: Comparative Literary History, 1860–1960" at the UChicago Center in Paris with Haun Saussy (see below).
Haun Saussy, University Professor in Comparative Literature, co-wrote Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications (Routledge, 2015) with César Dominguez (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Darío Villanueva (Real Academia Española). He co-edited Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines: Literature with Other Arts (P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2014) with Gerald Gillespie (Stanford University). Saussy received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in support of his project "Zhuangzi Inside Out: Translation as Citation." He was the 2014 University of Otago De Carle Distinguished Visiting Professor, the 2015 George Steiner Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, and the 2015 Greenberg Distinguished Scholar at Reed College. He received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "History, Philology and the Nation," a project with Judith Farquhar (the Max Palevsky Professor Emerita in Anthropology) and for "Health and Human Rights," a project with Dan Brudney (Professor in Philosophy). Saussy was nominated for membership in PEN International and Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure and he delivered the keynote address at "Comparing Today" at the University of Otago. He also co-organized "Formalism/Idealism: Comparative Literary History, 1860–1960" at the UChicago Center in Paris with Boris Maslov (see above).
Creative Writing
Rachel Dewoskin, Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, published Blind (Penguin 2014). She received a 2014 MacDowell Writing Residency and a Best Fiction 2014 Nomination from the Young Adult Library Services Association.
Daniel Raeburn, Lecturer in Creative Nonfiction in the Committee on Creative Writing, received UChicago's Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Michael Bourdaghs, Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, co-edited Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 15: Performance in Japanese Literature (Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2014) with Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan) and Hoyt Long (Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations). He also delivered two public lectures as a part of the NEAC Distinguished Speaker Program.
Paul Copp, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also published The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Donald Harper, the Centennial Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received support from the U.S. Department of Education for the Center for East Asian Studies' NRC and FLAS programs.
Hoyt Long, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, co-edited Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 15: Performance in Japanese Literature (Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2014) with Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan) and Michael Bourdaghs (Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations). He received Innovation Grants from the UChicago Knowledge Lab for projects in their Metaknowledge Research Network. Long also received Global Midwest Initiative funding from the Mellon Foundation for "Global Poetry: Chicago Modernism at the World Scale."
Edward Shaughnessy, the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World's First Writing Systems," a project with Christopher Woods (Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute). He and Woods also received support from the UChicago Center in Beijing for the conference "Signs of Writing."
Youqin Wang, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a translation publication subvention for Victims of the Cultural Revolution (forthcoming).
Dongfeng Xu, Lecturer in Chinese in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, published 晚明天主教翻譯文學箋注 (Christian Literature in Chinese Translation, 1595–1647: An Anthology with Commentary and Annotations) (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2015) and Guxin Shengjing 古新聖經賀清泰 (A Vernacular Translation of the Old and New Testaments by Louis Antoine de Poirot [1735–1813]) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2015).
Judith Zeitlin, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received the Gold Award from the Council of Advancement in Support of Education for "Envisioning China." She also received support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for the conference "The Voice as Something More."
English Language and Literature
Lauren Berlant, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language & Literature, delivered the Ioan Davies Distinguished Lecture at York University and the keynote address, "Sensing the Commons," at the International Association of Geographers. She was also the Stavro Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Trent University.
Adrienne Brown, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship to support her research leave in 2014–15.
Hillary Chute, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature, received the 2014 Push and Kick Award for Excellence in the World of Graphic Books from the Society of Illustrators. She also delivered the keynote address at "Comics, Theory, Practice" at the University of Oregon–Eugene.
Maud Ellmann, the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English in the Department of English Language & Literature, delivered the keynote address at "The Prosaic Imaginary: Novels and the Everyday, 1750–2000" at the University of Sydney and the keynote address at the "Virginia Woolf: Writing the World" conference at Loyola University Chicago.
Frances Ferguson, the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in English Language & Literature, co-edited a Philogical Quarterly special issue in honor of Geoffrey Hartman with Kevis Goodman (University of California–Berkeley).
Timothy Harrison, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received the Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal.
Patrick Jagoda, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, was the Harrington Faculty Fellow in American Studies for 2014–15 at University of Texas–Austin.
Loren A. Kruger, Professor in English Language & Literature, received a course enhancement grant from the UChicago Arts Council.
Benjamin Morgan, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received conference support grants from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Nicholson Center, and the Center for International Studies to organize the Victorian Studies Symposium with Zachary Samalin (Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature).
Michael Murrin, the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature, received the American Comparative Literature Association's Renee Wellek Prize of the for his book Trade and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2013).
John Muse, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received conference support grants from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the Center for Theater and Performance Studies, and the Deputy Provost for the Arts for "What Can Performance Philosophy Do?"
Deborah L. Nelson, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature, participated in "Around 1948: Human Rights and Global Transformation," a conference at Columbia University devoted to the Critical Inquiry special issues she co-edited with Leela Gandhi (Brown University).
Srikanth Reddy, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing, published the poem "Pop Quiz" in Little Star 6. He also received grants in support of a 2014–15 research leave from the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Capital.
Lisa Ruddick, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature, delivered the Josephine Gessner Ferguson Lecture at Tulane University.
Zachary Samalin, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received conference support grants from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities, Nicholson Center, and Center for International Studies to organize the Victorian Studies Symposium with Benjamin Morgan (Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature).
Jennifer Scappettone, Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing, published Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014). She received the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Translation Award for Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012). She was the Bogliasco Foundation's Fellow in Literature and received a Library Research Grant from the Getty Research Institute. Scappettone also received a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship from UChicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry as well as the Chandis Securities Fellowship from the Huntington Library.
Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor in English Language & Literature, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Vu Tran, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Committee on Creative Writing and the Department of English Language & Literature, published Dragonfish: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015). He was named the Bread Loaf Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2015.
John Wilkinson, Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Committee on Creative Writing and the Department of English Language & Literature, published Schedule of Unrest. Selected Poems (Salt Publishing 2014) and Courses Matter-Woven (Equipage, 2015). He delivered the keynote addresses at Experimental: A Poetics Symposium at the University of Sydney and at "Dylan Unchained: The Dylan Thomas Centenary Conference" at the University of Swansea.
Germanic Studies
Catherine Baumann, Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies, co-organized "Content Based Instruction" at Cornell University.
Florian Klinger, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies, co-organized "Rhythm: A Transdisciplinary Concept," a workshop and conference.
David E. Wellbery, the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "The Idealism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities," a collaboration with James Conant (Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy) and Robert Pippin (the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought and Philosophy).
Christopher Wild, Associate Professor in Germanic Studies, co-edited Auftreten: Wege auf die Bühne (Theater der Zeit, 2014) with Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz). He also received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Sunny Yudkoff, Lecturer in Yiddish in Germanic Studies, received a Posen Foundation Fellowship.
Linguistics
Diane K. Brentari, Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for "A Typological Analysis of Handshape: Gesture, Homesign, and Sign Language."
Itamar Francez, Assistant Professor in Linguistics, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Victor Friedman, the Language in Daghestan conference at UChicago, and the 20th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference at the University of Utah.
Anastasia Giannakidou, Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to organize a course on bilingualism with Na'ama Rokem (Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Sayed Kashua, an Israeli author and journalist.
Lenore Grenoble, the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, received a Doctoral Dissertation Research grant from the National Science Foundation for work to be conducted by Erin Franklin (graduate student in Slavic Languages and Literatures). She delivered keynote addresses at UChicago's Humanities Day 2014 and the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. She also organized the Arctic Indigenous Language Symposium's Sustainable Development Working Group.
Chris Kennedy, Professor in Linguistics, was awarded the UChicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. He also received a National Science Foundation grant for "Meaning in Context" and a Humanities Visiting Committee Faculty Research Grant.
Jason Merchant, Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Historical Semantics and Legal Interpretation," a project with Alison LaCroix (Professor in the Law School).
Fidele Mpiranya, Lecturer in Linguistics, published Swahili Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2015).
Salikoko Mufwene, the 20th meeting of the International Association of World Englishes at Amity University, and the Symposium about Language and Society at the University of Texas–Austin.
Music
Philip Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, authored and was the artistic director for a double-CD set and accompanying booklet of As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955. He co-edited The Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (Rowman and Littlefiled, 2015) with Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College) and served as Artistic Director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society. Additionally, Bohlman was awarded a "Humanities Without Walls" grant from the Mellon Foundation for the collaborative project "The History of World Music Recording." He received a Norman Cutler Travel Fellowship from UChicago's Committee on Southern Asian Studies and also received support for the Sounding the Audio Moment in South Asia symposium from the UChicago Center in Delhi.
Seth Brodsky, Assistant Professor in Music, received funding from the Goethe Institut Chicago and UChicago's Art Council, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Office of the Deputy Provost of the Arts for "there is no repetition: Mathias Spahlinger at 70."
Melvin L. Butler, Assistant Professor of Music, received a Grammy Nomination with Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Landmarks (Blue Note, 2014). He was also awarded a grant from the Norman Wait Harris Fund for "The Bridge: A Collaboration between Chicago and French Jazz Artists"
Anthony Cheung, Assistant Professor in Music, released a portrait CD, "Roundabouts," recorded and released by the Ensemble Modern. He also premiered several pieces: "Roundabouts," at the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Civitas Ensemble concert; "More Marginalia" with the Atlas Ensemble; "SynchroniCities" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and "Après une lecture" at the Impuls Festival. He was appointed as the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow of the Cleveland Orchestra for 2015–17 and won the 2015 ASCAP Plus Annual Award. He was also the co-winner of the 2014 Atlas Ensemble Composition Competition and he received a Recording Program Grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for the final mastering and distribution costs of a second portrait CD.
Thomas Christensen, the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music, published The Work of Music Theory (Ashgate, 2014). He also delivered the keynote address at the Oregon Conference for Graduate Musicians at the University of Oregon.
Martha Feldman, the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music, published The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015) and was elected President of the American Musicological Society. Feldman received conference support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for "A Voice as Something More." She also received support from the UChicago Arts Council for Shulamit Ran's retirement concert and produced the film Inside New Music: The University of Chicago's Contempo Celebrates Fifty Years.
Berthold Hoeckner, Associate Professor in Music, delivered the 2014 Derry Lecture at Western University. He also co-curated a micro-exhibition in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices, with David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought).
Robert L. Kendrick, Professor of Music, delivered the keynote address at "Listening to Early Modern Catholicism" at Boston College.
Kaley R. Mason, Assistant Professor in Music, is President-Elect for the Canadian Society for Traditional Music. He received a grant from UChicago's Center in Delhi for "Sounding the Audio Moment in South Asia" and a grant from the Committee on Southern Asian Studies for a workshop with the band Sakhi and Instrumental Instruction for the South Asian Music Ensemble.
Marta Ptaszynska, the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, received the Award of the President of Poland for outstanding achievements in creating music for children. Her composition "Gloria Artis" received a Special Award from the Polish Ministry of Culture, and she also published "5 Improvisations after J.R" (Polish Music Publications PWM).
Shulamit Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music, published "Birds of Paradise for flute and piano," "The Humble Shall Inherit the Earth, Psalm 37 for chorus," and "Connecting the Dots for piano" (all by Theodore Presser Company). Her composition "Birds of Paradise," won the National Flute Association's 2015 Newly Published Music competition. She also delivered the Convocation Address at UChicago's 523rd Convocation.
Steven Rings, Associate Professor in Music, won the Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory's Popular Music Interest Group for "A Foreign Sound to Your Ear: Bob Dylan Performs ‘It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding),' 1964–2009" (Music Theory Online, 2013). He also delivered the keynote address at the South Central Society of Music Theory's annual meeting.
Anne W. Robertson, the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Augusta Read Thomas, University Professor of Composition in Music, premiered "EOS: Goddess of the Dawn (A Ballet for Orchestra)" with the Utah Symphony, "Selene for percussion quartet and string quartet" with JACK Quartet and Third Coast Percussion, "Helix Spirals for string quartet" with the Parker Quartet at Harvard University, "Dappled Things" with TTBB, and "Capricious Toccata for solo violin" at Agnes Scott College. She was awarded the Order of Lincoln from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra's Composer Award, and was one of six finalists worldwide for the Gramophone Classical Music Award for 2014. Thomas was also a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, traveling to 100 affiliated college and university campuses in 2014–15.
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fred M. Donner, Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, was named a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center during his research leave in 2014–15.
McGuire Gibson, Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, delivered the keynote addresses at the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology's annual meeting, and at the "Cultural Heritage Crisis in the Middle East" conference at the King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas.
Petra M. Goedegebuure, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, published The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014).
Richard Payne, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, published a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "The Archeology of Sasanian Politics" (De Gruyter, 2014). He received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation, a grant from the Oriental Institute to support the "Iranian World in Late Antiquity" lecture series, a grant to support the Shaul Shaked lecture series from the UChicago Center for Jewish Studies, and a UChicago Center in Paris grant to support the Cosmopolitanism Workshop.
Tahera Qutbuddin, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, published the translation of Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad (New York University Press, 2015), co-translated with the editors of the Library of Arabic Literature.
Na'ama Rokem, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to organize a course on bilingualism with Anastasia Giannakidou (Professor in Linguistics) and Sayed Kashua, an Israeli author and journalist.
David Schloen, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), and Gil Stein (see below).
Ahmed El Shamsy, Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, received a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from the Volkswagen Foundation to spend his 2014–2015 research leave at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, where he also organized a conference on Islamic print culture.
Gil Stein, Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Director of the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), and David Schloen (see above).
Christopher Woods, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World's First Writing Systems," a project with Edward Shaughnessy (the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations). He and Shaughnessy also received support from the UChicago Center in Beijing for the conference "Signs of Writing."
Philosophy
Daniel Brudney, Professor in Philosophy, delivered the plenary lecture at "Values in a Changing World."
Agnes Callard, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, delivered the keynote address at the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at UChicago.
James Conant, Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy, received the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis, awarded by the Humboldt Foundation. He was also awarded a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "The Idealism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities," a collaboration with Robert Pippin (the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought and Philosophy) and David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies). Conant served as co-director of the FAGI Institute for Analytic German Idealism at the University of Leipzig.
Anton Ford, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Gabriel Richardson Lear, Professor in Philosophy, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Robert Pippen, the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "The Idealism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities," a collaboration with James Conant (Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy) and David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies).
Josef Stern, the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy, received the Prize for the Best Book in the History of Philosophy Published in 2013 awarded by the Board of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. He was elected Fellow to the American Academy of Jewish Research and appointed Trustee at the Maimonides Center for Jewish Studies. He was the Russell Berrie Professor at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas's John Paul II Center. He received a conference support grant from UChicago's Center in Beijing for "Hermeneutical Strategies in Response to Crisis and the Disappearance of a Tradition in Jewish and Chinese Thought." He also received a publication subvention from James and Manfred Lehmann Foundation for translating his recent work into Hebrew.
Anubav Vasudevan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, received a 2014–2015 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Philosophy, received support from the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education for the Chicago Moral Philosophy Seminar.
Romance Languages and Literatures
Frederick de Armas, the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, served as President of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro and was the Honorary President of EMIT (the Early Modern Text and Image Society). He delivered the keynote addresses at the Kaleidoscope Conference at the University of Wisconsin and at the Chicago Cervates Symposium at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago. He curated "Literary Narratives in Painting” in conjunction the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices.
Irena Cajkova, Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, translated Sen kapitána Arsenia (El sueño del capitán Arsenio) (Prague: Meander Publishing, 2014) and Lisandro venčí rybičky (Lisandro pasea peces) (Prague: Meander Publishing, 2014).
Daisy Delogu, Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, published Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (University of Toronto Press, 2015). She was awarded the UChicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring and also received the Albert W. Fields Award for best article published in Explorations in Renaissance Culture in 2013.
Daniel Desormeaux, Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, published Alexandre Dumas: Fabrique d'immortalité (Classiques Garnier, 2014). He edited a special issue of L'Esprit Createur, "Michelet: Inventaire critique des notions-clés" (University of Minnesota Press). He received support from UChicago's Norman Wait Harris Fund and the Franke Institute for the Humanities for "Haiti: Beyond Commemorations." He also received support from the Office of the Dean of the College for "New Biographical Approaches to Literature" and he co-organized "Writers and Critics" with Thomas Pavel (the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures).
Laura Gandolfi, Assistant Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, organized the seminars The Golden Age Otherwise: Cosmopolitanism and Mexican Cinema, circa 1950 and New Mexican Literary Voices: Luis Felipe Fabre, Susana Iglesias, Valeria Luiselli at UChicago's Katz Center for Mexican Studies.
Izaskun Indacoechea, Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received support from UChicago's Arts Council and Center for Latin American Studies for the Spanish Film Club.
Alison James, Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, co-edited a special issue of Littérature, "Valère Novarina: une poétique théologique?" with Olivier Dubouclez (Université de Liège).
Ana María Lima, Senior Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received UChicago's Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for the PhD seminar "Technologies of Enslavement: Performativity and Bondage in Transatlantic and Transpacific Perspectives." She also delivered the keynote address at the "Color in the Early Modern Atlantic World" conference at UChicago.
Alice McLean, Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received a UChicago Language Center Advisory Board travel grant and a Chicago Studies Course Connections grant.
Larry Norman, the Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, organized "Theatrophobia: Theorizing Theater Antitheatrically" at the Sorbonne and "Classicisms" at the University of Chicago.
Thomas Pavel, the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, received the 2015 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for The Lives of the Novel (Princeton University Press, 2013). The monograph was an International Society for the Study of Narrative Winner and shortlisted for the 2014 Christian Gauss Prize from the Phi Beta Kappa Society; it was also released in Italian and French translations. He co-organized "Writers and Critics" with Daniel Desormeaux (Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures) at UChicago and also co-organized "Prosody Today: Comparative perspectives on the study of verse" at UChicago with Boris Maslov (Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature).
Rocco Rubini, Assistant Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, published The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger (University of Chicago Press, 2014), for which he also won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize. He received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Humanism, the Classics, and the Historical," a project with Boris Maslov (Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature). He also received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for the PhD seminar Philology as a Way of Life: Humanism and the Classics.
Justin Steinberg, Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, won the 2014 MLA Howard R. Marraro Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Book or Essay for Dante and the Limits of the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He was also elected Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dante Studies.
Veronica Vegna, Senior Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning.
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Robert Bird, Associate Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He received conference support grants from UChicago's Council on International Studies, the Committee for Central Eurasian Studies, and the Center for International Studies for the 2016 Conference in Central Eurasian Studies. Bird also received a grant from the UChicago Center in Beijing to support a Russian-Chinese intellectual history conference in collaboration with Clemson University.
Angelina Ilieva, Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received support from UChicago's Norman Waits Harris Fund and Arts Planning Council Course Resource Fund for the "Balkan Rhythms" lecture and workshop.
Kinga Kosmala, Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received support from the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies and UChicago Language Center to organize a Professional Development Workshop for Instructors of Polish. He also received a Chicago Studies Course Connections grant.
William Nickell, Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received conference support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for "Found in Translation."
Nada Petković, Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. She organized "The Serb Who Connected the World: A Celebration of the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (1854–1935)" at UChicago and "Serbian Film Retrospective" at the Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia in Chicago.
Valentina Pichugin, Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received grants from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning and a Chicago Studies Course Connections grant.
Bożena Shallcross, Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholars Fellowship for "Destination Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Objects, Materialities, and the Questions of Authenticity."
Malynne Sternstein, Associate Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received UChicago's Curricular Development award and a Humanities Visiting Committee Research Grant.
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Mandira Bhaduri, Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, curated an exhibition on artist Rafi Hawue at UChicago.
Steven Collins, the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, was awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the Theravada Buddhist Civilizations Project, a collaboration with Juliane Schober (Arizona State University).
Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in and the Divinity School and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, published The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), On Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Pluralism and Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2015). She also delivered the 2015 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture of the American Council for Learned Societies.
Jason Grunebaum, Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work, Honorable Mention for his translation of Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol (Yale University Press, 2014). He was also nominated by the Indian Consulate of Chicago as distinguished foreign scholar of Hindi.
Nisha Kommattam, Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler travel grant from the University of Chicago. She also organized a Kathakali lecture-cum-demonstration with Kathakali artists from the Kerala Kalamandalam as well as the 5th Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literatures, both at UChicago.
Rochona Majumdar, Associate Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, was a visiting fellow at Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.
Ulrike Stark, Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a Humanities Visiting Committee Faculty Research Grant.
Visual Arts
Katherine Desjardins, Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a Distinguished Service Award for Teaching from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Amber Ginsburg, Lecturer in Visual Arts, exhibited Were There Many at Luther College Gallery; Converse at Indiana University Northwest in Gary; The Tea Project at Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, KS, and High Concept Laboratories in Chicago; How to Unmake and American Quilt at the Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago; Happening at Site A at Site A in Chicago; and Urbs in Horto at the Kochi Biennale in Kochi, India.
Laura L. Letinsky, Professor in Visual Arts, published Ill Form and Void Full (Radius Press NM, 2014). Time named it one of the Best Photography Books of 2014, PDN Photo Annual named it one of Best Photography Books, and American Photography Magazine named it one of the 10 Best Photography Books of 2015; she was also shortlisted for the Scotia Bank Photography Prize. She received a project grant and the Berlin International Residency Award, both from the Canada Council for the Arts. She exhibited Objecta at Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea; Still Life at Beetles and Huxley Gallery; Getting Naked at THEMUSEUM; Neither Necessary nor Natural at the Photography Festival; A Moment on the Lips at the Illinois State Museum; and Yours More Pretty at Yancey Richardson.
Geof Oppenheimer, Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts, received a publication grant from Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. He exhibited Monsters at Ratio3.
William Pope.L, Associate Professor in Visual Arts, published Showing up to Withhold (University of Chicago Press, 2014). He won the Common Good Spirit Award for Activism in the Arts 2015. He exhibited Trinket at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Gold People Shit in Their Valet at Galerie Catherine Bastide. He screened Small Cup and Reenactor at the Geffen Contemporary, The Long White Cloud at Black Cinema House, and Reenactor at the Addams Gallery.
Jason Salavon, Associate Professor in Visual Arts, was Visiting Artist at Microsoft Research. His work was acquired by the Denver Art Museum and the Crocker Art Museum, and he exhibited 1000 Special Snowflakes at the Seattle Art Museum.
David Schutter, Associate Professor in Visual Arts, exhibited Glove in Hand at the Aurel Scheibler gallery in Berlin.
Jessica Stockholder, the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts, won the National Academy Museum Award for Excellence for work in exhibition in 2014. She exhibited Erstwhile & Notwithstanding and Palpable Glyphic Rapture at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, and SITE 20 Years at Site Santa Fe.