the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music and the College, published a Chinese translation of his 2006 book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, was awarded the Levi-Sala Book Prize for his work on Ashkelon in the seventh century B.C.E in Biblical Archaeology Review.

the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published A Case for Irony: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded 2011–12 research leave fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation.

the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Comparative Literature, Divinity, and the College, published Saints: Faith without Borders (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Pre-History of J-Pop (Columbia University Press, 2012) and won the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for a translation of a scholarly study of literature for Natsume Sōseki's Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings, which he translated in collaboration with Atsuko Ueda and Joseph A. Murphy.

Professor in Classics and the College, served as a visiting scholar at the American Numismatic Society.

Professor in Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, published The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and won a faculty-in-residence grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, Creative Writing, and the College, edited and translated Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012) for which she received the Raiziss de Palchi Book Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recieved three residency grants from iLand, the Millay Colony Group, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Equinox Publishing, 2012) and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Christopher Faraone (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).