Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Director of the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), and David Schloen (see above).

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, published the translation of Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad (New York University Press, 2015), co-translated with the editors of the Library of Arabic Literature.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World's First Writing Systems," a project with Edward Shaughnessy (the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations). He and Shaughnessy also received support from the UChicago Center in Beijing for the conference "Signs of Writing."

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), and Gil Stein (see below).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, received a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from the Volkswagen Foundation to spend his 2014–2015 research leave at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, where he also organized a conference on Islamic print culture.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, published The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, was named a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center during his research leave in 2014–15.