the Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture at All Souls College in Oxford.

Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, co-curated the exhibition Envisioning South Asia: Texts, Scholarship, Legacies at the UChicago Special Collections Research Center.

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, co-edited and co-translated Lost Evenings, Lost Lives: Tamil Poets on Sri Lanka’s War, which won the English PEN Translates Award.

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Committee on Social Thought, published Redeeming the Kamasutra (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations , received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “Modes of Philology in Medieval South India.”

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, was awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the Theravada Buddhist Civilizations Project, a collaboration with Juliane Schober (Arizona State University).

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in and the Divinity School and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, published The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), On Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Pluralism and Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2015). She also delivered the 2015 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture of the American Council for Learned Societies.

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work, Honorable Mention for his translation of Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol (Yale University Press, 2014). He was also nominated by the Indian Consulate of Chicago as distinguished foreign scholar of Hindi.

Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a Humanities Visiting Committee Faculty Research Grant.

Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler travel grant from the University of Chicago. She also organized a Kathakali lecture-cum-demonstration with Kathakali artists from the Kerala Kalamandalam as well as the 5th Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literatures, both at UChicago.