2013-2014

Malynne Sternstein

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.

Justin Steinberg

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.

Scott Wolniak

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.

Alison James

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, edited Frontières de la Non-Fiction: Littérature, Cinéma, Arts (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013). She was awarded grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and France Chicago Center to plan the conference Fiction/Non Fiction: The Uses and Truths of Literature. She also received a grant from the UChicago Arts Council.

Philip C. Engblom

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler Grant for Research Travels from the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies.

Jessica Stockholder

the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts, won the 2014 Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She delivered the 2014 Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and gave keynote addresses at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference and the 41st Annual Gathering of the National Council of Arts Administrators.

Zachary Cahill

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.

Amber Ginsburg

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

Jason Salavon

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.

Victor Friedman

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.

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