the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received the National Achievement Award from Life magazine China. He was awarded the Slade Professorship from Oxford University and the Guanghua Professorship from Fudan University. He curated the exhibition Twin Traks: Video Works by Yang Fudong at YUZ Museum in Shanghai. He published Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China (UChicago Press, 2016) and Exhibiting Contemporary Art in the 1990s (OCAT Institute, 2016).

Professor in Art History, received grants from the Logan Family Foundation and the Friends of Heritage Preservation Foundation for the conservation of the Wolf Vostell sculpture Concrete Traffic.

Associate Professor in Art History, received a scholar grant from the Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation for his book project “History Of China’s Performative Architecture.” He received a grant from the Beijing Center for the Tianlongshan Cave Scanning project.

Assistant Professor in Art History, was awarded the 2015 American Academy of Religion Best First Book in the History of Religions and the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Studies. She also received the Franklin Pease G.Y. Memorial Prize for the best article to appear in Colonial Latin American Review between 2013 and 2014 and received an honorable mention for the 2015 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association.

Assistant Professor in Art History, published Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (University of Chicago Press, 2015). She also received a CEAS Title IV Media Grant from the UChicago Center for East Asian Studies to develop a website of Meiji Japanese prints at the Smart Museum of Art.

Assistant Professor of Art History and the College, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Getty Research Institute for his project “The Phantom Image: Visuality and the Supernatural.”

Associate Professor in Art History, received an Arvey Book Award Honorable Mention from the Association for Latin American Art.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History, received a Faculty Research Grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Changing Spatial and Social Ecology of Renaissance Florence” in collaboration with John Padgett, Professor in Political Science.

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.

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.