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).

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.

Chair of the Department of Art History and Associate Professor in Art History and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Material Matters, a collaborative project with the Smart Museum of Art to explore the significance that materials hold within the context of modern and contemporary art history.

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, received a Faculty Small Grant from the University of Chicago African Studies Workshop.

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, received the Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from the College Art Association for her collaboration with coauthor Mary Miller, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (University of Texas Press, 2013). She was also awarded the College Art Association's Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award to support publication of The Cacaxtla Paintings (University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2015).

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, cocurated the exhibition Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints with Anne Leonard at the Smart Museum of Art, which was named one of the “Ten Best Art and Design Shows of 2012” by Time Out Chicago. She also received the Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award from the College Art Association for her forthcoming In Search of Images: Kano Hogai and the Making of Modern Japanese-Style Painting (University of Chicago Press, 2014).

Associate Professor in Art History and the College, coedited a special edition of the International Center of Medieval Art’s journal Gesta with Christopher Lakey. She also received the University's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.