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.

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.

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.

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.

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 w

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.

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.

Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Arts, received a studio fellowship from the Whitney Independent Study Program.