Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, was elected president of the North American Society for Serbian Studies.

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics and the College and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Jerrold Sadock, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Linguistics, Humanities, and the College, received a three-year award from the National Science Foundation to develop a lexicon and multimedia gazetteer for West Greenlandic, an Inuit language and the national language of Greenland.

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College and director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, received the United Macedonian Diaspora’s Macedonia Friendship Award and the Nova Makedonija Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received a 2010 award for Humanist Achievement from the Mother Teresa Foundation. Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian , (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), a novel by Aleko Konstantinov that Friedman edited and cotranslated, won the John D.