Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2012) and was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship at the Katz Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Receipts, Scribes and Collectors in Early Ptolemaic Thebes (O. Taxes 2) (Peeters Publishers, 2011).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition (Smith Petit Foundation, 2012).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published The Elements of Hittite (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, recieved a nomination for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the University of Louisville for his 2010 book  Muhammad and the Believers, which was recently published in paperback (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2012) and transtated into Italian as Maometto e le origini dell'islam (Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., 2011).

the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received an honorary degree from the American University Beirut and was awarded the Middle East Medievalists' Lifetime Achievement Award.

the Henry Crown Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Ugaritic and the Origins of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2012), Une bibliothèque au sud de la ville***.