Lecturer in Visual Arts, won UChicago’s Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy. He exhibited Fields at the Valerie Carberry Gallery in Chicago and Surface (New Drawings) at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. His painting New American Paintings—No. 107 was the juror’s pick of Eric Crosby, assistant curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Dante and the Limits of the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities and was named associate editor of the journal Dante Studies.

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, received grants from UChicago’s Humanities Visiting Committee, Center for Disciplinary Innovation, and France Chicago Center. She was awarded a grant from the UChicago Committee for the Study of Gender and Sexuality to plan the Contemporary Horrors conference and a grant from the UChicago Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies to support the Medieval Slavic Studies collection in honor of Frantisek Svejkovsky.

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, edited Bilingual Discourse and Cross-cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India (Institut Français de Pondichéry/École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013).

Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler Grant for Research Travels from the UChicago Committee on South Asian Studies. He also received a grant from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize a conference on his research project “A Worldwide Literature: Jāmī (1414–1492) in the Dār al-Islām and Beyond,” which is supported by UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Additionally, he was awarded a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the Zukunftsphilologie Berlin.

Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures of the Comedic,” a collaborative research project with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature) and Catherine Sullivan (Associate Professor in Visual Arts). He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Richard And Mary L.

Lecturer in Visual Arts, was the artist in residence at High Concept Laboratories in Chicago.

Assistant Professor in Visual Arts, had one of his pieces acquired by the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Springs, Florida. He exhibited The Top 100,000,000 at Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas, and Rainbow Aggregator in the Moving Image Exhibit at Mark Moore Gallery in New York.

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, was awarded a fellowship from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for an opera collaboration with composer George Lewis and director Sean Griffin. She received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Infrastructures of the Comedic,” a collaborative research project with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature) and Zachary Cahill (Lecturer in Visual Arts).

the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics, was awarded the 2014 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund to plan the 19th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference.