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.

Lecturer in Creative Writing and the College, won the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize and had her book The Irrationalist shortlisted for the Griffin Prize.

Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, won the 2011 Albion Book Prize for her 2010 book Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Victorian Britain and received the University's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in Divinity, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Social Thought, and the College, edited The Magic Doe: Shaikh Qutban Suhravadī’s Mirigāvatī  (Oxford University Press, 2011; translated by Aditya Behl) and recieved the University's Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

Associate Professor in Art History and the College, published Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam (Yale University Press, 2011) and was awarded a 2011–12 research leave fellowship from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard.

Associate Professor in Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, coedited Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture with Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith (The New York Press, 2011). He also won the Wayne S.

the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in Classics and the College, published Ancient Victims, Modern Observers: Reflections on Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and and coedited Imagined Beginnings: The Poetics and Politics of Cosmogony, Theogony and Anthropogony in the Ancient World with Andrea Seri (special issue of the Journal for Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 2012).

Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, recieved an honor for her work, "Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–1800," which was listed as one of "50 influential articles published by the Journals Division of the MIT Press" in the last 50 years.

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).