Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus in History and Art History, was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, published Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).

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

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.

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to support her spring 2010 conference “German and Hebrew: Histories of a Conversation” and was appointed a fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, published Still on Call (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2010).  

Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities in Classics and the College, published The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Philosophy, Divinity School, and the College, published Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality (New York: Basic Books, 2008).

Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, published Jewish Cabaret in Exile, a CD and booklet, with the New Budapest Orpheum Society (Chicago: Cedille Records, 2009); edited Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New (University of Chicago Press, 2008); was awarded an honorary professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (Germany) and, with Christine Bohlman, won the 2009 Donald Tovey Memorial Prize from Oxford University’s Faculty of Music for their research on and performance of music from the concentration camps, particularly Vikto