Associate Professor in Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, published The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

(pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab), Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Love in Exile, a translation of a novel by Bahaa Taher (London: Arabia Books, 2008); The Lodging House, a translation of a novel by Khairy Shalaby (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008); and The Zafarani Files, a translation of a novel by Gamal al-Ghitani (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008).

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

Professor in Classics and the College, was a 2009–2010 Visiting Professor at the Assembly of the Collège de France.  

Professor in History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received the Farabi International Award for contributions to the Humanities and Islamic Studies.

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committees on African and African-American Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and History of Culture, and the College, was appointed the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library.

Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College, published Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Assistant Professor in Music and the College, was appointed a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

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

Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music and the College, received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.