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

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.

Associate Professor in Classics and the College, was named a fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek program.

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 English Language and Literature, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, was accepted to the inaugural summer session of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College, was the 2011–12 writer-in-residence at the ARCA Summer Program in Amelia, Italy.

the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Social Thought, and the College, edited Kultur-Schreiben als romantisches Projekt. Romantische Ethnographie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Imagination und Wissenschaft (Könighausen & Neumann, 2012).

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, coedited Theaterfeinlichkeit und Antitheatralität with Stefanie Diekmann (Fink, 2011).

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, had three works commercially recorded: "Shirim L’Yom Tov—Four Festive Songs" on Days of Awe and Rejoicing: Radiant Gems of Jewish Music (Chicago a Cappella, 2011), Perfect Storm for solo viola (Theodore Presser Company, 2011), and "Song and Dance" for saxophone and percussion on Carillon Sky (Impermanence Records, 2011).

Associate Professor in Philosophy and the College, coedited The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud with Niko Kolodny and Wai-hung Wong (Oxford University Press, 2011).