the Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy and the College, published Orwell ou le Pouvoir de la Verite (Éditions Agone, 2011) and Rileggere Wittgenstein (Carocci, 2010) with Cora Diamond. He received an SIAS grant to run a two-year summer institute (together with Sebastian Rödl) titled “The Second Person: Comparative Perspectives,” to take place at the National Humanities Center in August 2011 and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in August 2012.

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Jacques Derrida zur Einführung (Dresden: Junius Verlag, 2011).

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a residential fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and the College, received a Loeb Classical Library fellowship.

the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Music, and the College, received a fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.

the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, the Committee on the History of Culture and the College, received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to sustain the work of the Center for Disciplinary Innovation at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, which he directs.

Assistant Professor in Music and the College, published Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College and faculty director at the Cultural Policy Center, received an award for excellence in art crime scholarship from the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art for his book, The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division, published  Luminous Epinoia (The Cultural Society, 2010). He also edited John Taggart’s Is Music: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Chair), the Oriental Institute, and the College and executive editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary , published Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi, Neunundfünfzigstes Heft: Texte aus dem Bezirk des Grossen Tempels X (Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2010) and was appointed an honorary member of the Societas Anatolica.