the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy and the College, was named Russel Berrie Visiting Professor at the Angelicum (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy).
Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College, was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, co-edited Animals, the second volume of British It-Narratives, 1750–1830, with Liz Bellamy, Mark Blackwell, and Christina Lupton (Pickering and Chatto, 2012) and received the 2011–12 Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Huntington Library.
the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, published Seeing Through Race (W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) (Harvard University Press, 2012) and gave the 2012 Petrou Lecture at the University of Maryland.
the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Divinity, and the College, published The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011), for which he won the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Criticism.
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2012) and was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship at the Katz Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Receipts, Scribes and Collectors in Early Ptolemaic Thebes (O. Taxes 2) (Peeters Publishers, 2011).
Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition (Smith Petit Foundation, 2012).
