Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a Teagle Fellow for the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education.

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor of Visual Art in the Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and the College, edited Topologie, Falten, Netze, Stulpungen in Kunst und Theorie (Vienna: Verlag Turia + Kant, 2009) with Wolfram Pichler.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (Writings from the Ancient World No. 21) (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Humanities in Art History and the College and Coeditor of Critical Inquiry, published The Emergence of Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Kanuni Suleyman Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by the University of Chicago.

John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts (Chair), and the College and Coeditor of Critical Inquiry, published Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

William H. Colvin Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies (Chair), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, published Approaches to Carpalistics: Movement and Gesture in Art, Literature, and Film (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2010).