the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics, was awarded the 2014 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund to plan the 19th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference.

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Cinema and Media Studies, published Letters to Dagmar (1920–1926) (Russkii put’, 2014), a collection of writings by Konstantin Bal'mont that he edited with Farida Tcherkassova.

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Rzeczy i Zaglada (Universitas, 2012).

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College, was named an honorary member of the Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship in International and Area Studies, jointly awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, and National Endowment for the Humanities.