Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Textuality, Language, Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 2010).

Associate Professor in Art History and the College, was appointed a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study and received the University of Chicago’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

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).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, edited Aufgabe #7 (New York: Litmus Press, 2008) and was appointed a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Professor in Classics and the College, was appointed an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.   

John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project “Understanding Perceptual Compensation in Sound Change.”