University Professor of Composition in Music, was awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. She premiered several compositions in 2013–14: “Saxophone Concerto” at the New Haven Symphony, “Bassoon Concertino” at the Double Reed Society Conference, “Starlight Ribbons” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theatre, and “Twilight Butterfly” at UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts. Her piece “Of Paradise and Light” was performed by the All-Star Orchestra on PBS, and her piece “Resounding Earth” was performed at the Chamber Music America Conference.

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was the composer in residence at Steans Music Institute and Weekend of Chamber Music Concerts. She published Hallel for Organ (Theodore Presser Company, 2014). Her composition “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory—String Quartet No. 3” was premiered by UChicago resident performers the Pacifica Quartet and her “Birds of Paradise” was premiered by the Chicago Flute Club.

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in Music and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive, a collaborative project with Philip V. Bohlman and the UChicago library to explore how the methods of “big science” might elucidate and facilitate the humanistic understanding of music, speech, and other audio expressions.

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in Music and the College, received a 2012–13 residential research leave fellowship from the Yale Institute for Sacred Music.

Associate Professor in Music and the College, received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.