the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, Law, and the College, received the Phi Betta Kappa Society's Sidney Hook Memorial Award and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences and received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar, "International Women's Human Rights: Paradigms, Paradoxes, and Possibilities," which featured participation from other University faculty.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published The Elements of Hittite (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosphy, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Divinity, and the College, coedited Foucault, Wittgenstein: de possibles rencontres with Frédéric Gros (Édition Kimé, 2011) and Pierre Hadot: l'insegnamento degli antichi, l'insegnamento dei moderni with Frédéric Worms (Edizioni ETS, 2012).

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.

Professor in Classics and the College, published Le Droit et l’Empire. Invention juridique et réalités politiques à Rome (Translated by Michèle Bresson; Odile Jacob, 2012), Imperial Rome: The Critical Century (A.D. 193–284) (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), and Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). He won the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a faculty-in-residence grant from the Loeb Classical Library at Harvard.

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.

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.