Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented Color Jam, an installation at the corner of State Street and Adams under the auspices of the Chicago Loop Alliance; Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear at Musée d’art Moderne in Saint-Etienne Metropole, France; and Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood at Frac des Pays de la Loire in Nantes, France; she also published Grab grassy this moment your I's (1301PE 2011), a catalog of her recent installation at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis.
Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, coedited The Effect of Palimpsest: Culture, Literature, History with Ryszard Nycz (Peter Lang, 2011) and published The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture (Indiana University Press, 2011) for which she recieved an Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Advanced Russian Through Film: A Collection of Transcripts and Exercises (Second Edition; Hermitage Publishers, 2011).
the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture with coauthor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black New Delhi, 2012) and was awarded the Sir Jadunath Sarkar Gold Medal for Pre-Modern South Asian History from the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.
Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts and the College, presented the solo exhibition Inside us all there is a part that would like to burn down our own house at Ratio3 in San Francisco.
Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, was the artist-in-residence for Chicago Ideas Week 2011 and his work "The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1" was aquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York; he also presented a solo exhibition at the Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles.
the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was the co-principal investigator for "The Theravada Civilizations Project: Future Directions in the Study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia," funded by the Luce Foundation.
the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was appointed to the Astor Visiting Lectureship at the University of Oxford, England.
Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College, was honored for her work Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal, which was shortlisted as one of the five best books published in the social sciences in 2009–2010 by the International Convention of Asia Scholars.
