LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies (Chair), Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, was awarded the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Preis of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Divinity School, and the College, Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry, and Codirector of the France Chicago Center, edited Pierre Hadot, L’enseignement des antiques, l’enseignement des moderns (Paris: Presses de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, 2010) with Frédéric Worms; Primo Levy, Vivir para contar.

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.”

Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, was awarded a Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Art History, edited Images and Texts on the “Artemidorus Papyrus” (Stuttgart: Historia Einzelschriften, 2009) with Kai Brodersen.  

Associate Professor in Music and the College, received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and was appointed Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Cognitive Music Theory at McGill University.

Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College (Chair, Theater and Performance Studies), published Shakespeare’s Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published A Manual of Ugaritic (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2009) and received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago.