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.

the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, served as associate editor on Art Spigelman's MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Panetheon, 2011).

the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, Computer Science, and the College, coedited The Handbook of Phonological Theory with Jason Riggle and Alan C. L. Yu, both Associate Professors in Linguistics and the College (Second Edition; Wiley Blackwell, 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.

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.

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 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.

the Henry Crown Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Ugaritic and the Origins of the West-Semitic Literary Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2012), Une bibliothèque au sud de la ville***.

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.

Associate Professor in Music and the College, published Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (University of California Press, 2012).