Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, published Readings in World Literature (Omnidawn Books, 2012), Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012), Voyager (University of California Press, 2011), and Conversities with co-author Dan Beachy-Quick (1913 Press, 2012).

the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received an honorary degree from the American University Beirut and was awarded the Middle East Medievalists' Lifetime Achievement Award.

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a Sawyer Seminar, "Around 1948: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Transformation," which featured participation from other University faculty; she was also named a senior fellow of the School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, recieved a nomination for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the University of Louisville for his 2010 book  Muhammad and the Believers, which was recently published in paperback (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2012) and transtated into Italian as Maometto e le origini dell'islam (Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., 2011).

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, co-edited Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity with Nada Petković, Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College (Scarecrow Press, 2012). He also received the 2011 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society and presented the John Larchet Memorial Lecture at University College Dublin in Ireland.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Master of Liberal Arts Program of the University's Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies.

Professor in Linguistics and the College, coedited Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Explorations with Andrew Simpson (Oxford University Press, 2012) and received the University's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy and the College, published Orwell ou le pouvoir de la vérité (Agone, 2011) and coedited Rethinking Epistemology, Volume 2 with Abel Günter (Walter De Gruyter Inc., 2012). He is a Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Göttingen) and the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Anneliese Maier-Forschungspreis five-year grant.

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and director of the Civic Knowledge Project, received the 2012 Faculty Initiative Award from the University's Neighborhood Schools Program.

University Professor in Music and the College, published Mansueto Tribute, Double Helix for two violins (premiere by Janet Sung and Yuan-Qing Yu, 2011) along with several other compositions. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Conseil Musical de la Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco and was appointed a lifetime member of the advisory committee of the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia.