Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, the Committee on Creative Writing, and the College, was named a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Howard Foundation fellowship for creative nonfiction for his work in progress, Vessels: A Memoir .

Associate Professor in Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, received the 2011 Robert Motherwell Book Award and an honorable mention from the 2010 American Publishers Awards for The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes , published by the University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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.

the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language and Literature, Gender Studies, and the College, published Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), which was named a John Hope Franklin Center Book.

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, has been named the Fromm Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Humanities Collegiate Division, published Everyone Remain Calm (Joyland/ECW Press, 2011).

Professor in Classics and the College, published  Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and named the Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig for summer 2012.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received the 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize in the post – 1900 category for Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920 – 2000 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009).