the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College, published Makedonistički Studii (Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), Očerki lakskogo jazyka (Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), and coedited Macedonian Matters: Proceedings of the Seventh Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies with Donald L. Dyer (a special supplement of the journal Balkanista, 2012).

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2011).

the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, published Itihasher janajibon o anyanyo probondho (The Public Life of History and Other Essays) (Ananda Publishers, 2011) and Provincializing Europe (Polish and Turkish translations; 2011). He was the Lansdowne Lecturer at Victoria University, Canada and recieved the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India.

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited and translated A Second Sunrise and Other Poems by R. Cheran in collaboration with Lakshmi Holmström (Navayana, 2012).

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.

Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented five solo exhibitions including III Form and Void Full at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hot and Cold All Over at Joseph Carroll and Sons, Boston; Mid-Career Survey at the Museum of Hagen, Germany; All That, and More at the Denver Museum of Art, Colorado; and What Matters at the Museum of North Dakota.