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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

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.

Professor of Music, delivered the keynote address at "Listening to Early Modern Catholicism" at Boston College.

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"