the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Voice Project, a collaboration with David Levin and a number of other Humanities faculty members to explore the concept of "voice" in an interdisciplinary way. She was also awarded a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Assistant Professor in Music and the College, received funding from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Music, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies to support the symposium "Benjamin Britten: Spheres of Influence."

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the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music and the College and Deputy Dean in the Humanities, published The Sound World of Father Mersenne: Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression (Garland Press, 2013).

the Helen B. & Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music and the College, published "Concerto for Percussion Solo, Orchestra & Electronics" (Polish Music Publications, 2012) and an arrangement of "Variations on Paganini" by W. Lutoslawski (Polish Music Publications, 2012). She also received an award from the American Society of Composers.

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, published Hanns Eisler: “In der Musik ist es anders” (Hanns Eisler: “in music, it’s different”; Hentrich & Hentrich, 2012), which he coauthored with Andrea Bohlman, and Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity (Scarecrow Press, 2013).

University Professor in Music and the College, published "Resounding Earth" along with several other compositions. She also was awarded the Order of Lincoln, a prize recognizing local "contributions to the betterment of humanity" from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in conjunction with the state governor.

Associate Professor in Music and the College, received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory and was invited by the Society's President to lead the inaugural Peer-Learning Program workshop at their 2013 Annual Meeting.