the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, and the College and executive director of the France Chicago Center, edited Héroïsme et lumières

Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received the University’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Hegel on Self-Consciousness (Princeton University Press, 2010), Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2010), and Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2010).

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Ulrike Stark, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a 2011 literature translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture (Chair), and the College, published the first critical edition of Brunoro Zampeschi’s L’innamorato (Longo Editore, 2010) with graduate students Chiara Montanari, Michael Subialka, and Sarah Christopher-Faggioli.

Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, was elected president of the North American Society for Serbian Studies.

Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received an outstanding achievement award in Tamil studies from the Tamil Literary Garden for his book Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India (State University of New York Press, 2010).

the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Philosophy, the Divinity School, and the College, published Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011).

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the History of Culture, and the College and editor of Montaigne Studies, published Bibliotheca Desaniana (Editions Classiques Garnier, 2011) and edited Les Chapitres oubliés des “Essais” de Montaigne (Éditions Honoré Champion, 2011).

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics and the College and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Jerrold Sadock, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Linguistics, Humanities, and the College, received a three-year award from the National Science Foundation to develop a lexicon and multimedia gazetteer for West Greenlandic, an Inuit language and the national language of Greenland.