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).

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, published The Shock of the Ancient (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Professor in Visual Arts, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, published After All (Damiani, 2010).

Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and the College, was awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Assistant Professor in Philosophy and the College, coedited Essays on Anscombe’s Intention (Harvard University Press, 2011) with Jennifer Hornsby and Frederick Stoutland.

the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, English, and the College and coeditor of Critical Inquiry , received an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College and director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, received the United Macedonian Diaspora’s Macedonia Friendship Award and the Nova Makedonija Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received a 2010 award for Humanist Achievement from the Mother Teresa Foundation. Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian , (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), a novel by Aleko Konstantinov that Friedman edited and cotranslated, won the John D.

Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts and the College, published Restless Empathy (Aspen Art Museum, 2010).

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures (Chair), Comparative Literature, and the College, was named to the editorial board of Anales Cervantinos . He was also awarded fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Consolider.

the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Irony and Identity (Harvard University Press, 2011).