Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Textuality, Language, Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 2010).

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College; Paola Iovene , Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College; and Judith Zeitlin, Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the University of Chicago Center in Beijing to host a conference entitled Chinese Opera Film: At the Intersection of Theater, Cinema, and Politics .

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a residential fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a book subvention award from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for his book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize in the post – 1900 category for Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920 – 2000 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009).