Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Evliy Çelebi’s Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne: From the Fifth Book of the Seyatnme (Brill, 2013).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Zionist Remaking of Literary Space (Northwestern University Press, 2013).

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, an edition and translation of the Dustur ma‘alim al-hikam compiled by al-Qadi al-Quda'i, with the Mi' at kalimah (One Hundred Proverbs) attributed to al-Jahiz (New York University Press, 2013).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, was inducted into the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (Oriental Institute, 2012).

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published OCHRE: An Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (Eisenbrauns 2012), which he coauthored with Sandra R. Schloen. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Comparative Economics, a collaboration with Alain Bresson and E. Glen Weyl, a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Case in Semitic: Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2013) and coedited Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Oriental Institute, 2012).