Assistant Professor in Near Eastern languages and Civilizations, served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Chicago chapter.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published a translation of Ma’sumeh Shirazi by Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh entitled Ma'sumeh of Shiraz (Association for the Study of Persian Literature, 2013).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. She also received a grant from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for a joint research project on bilingualism with Anastasia Giannakiudou (Professor of Linguistics).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, cocurated In Rememberance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East at UChicago’s Oriental Institute.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World’s First Writing Systems, an investigation of the cultural and social contexts and structural properties of the world’s oldest writing systems conducted in collaboration with Edward Shaughnessy.

Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received grants from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for What are Arab Jewish Texts?