the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy, published Religión, razón y espiritualidad (Alpha Decay, 2014) and edited Lectures on the Will to Know (Lectures at the Collège de France) by Michel Foucault (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He was awarded the Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Minister of Education and honored with the Membro Honorario del Corpo Accademico at the Università Ca’Foscari Venezia.

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, published Derrida/Searle, Deconstruction and Ordinary Language (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Derrida et le langage ordinaire (Hermann, 2014). He received a postdoctoral grant from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor in History, Philosophy, and Psychology, published Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2013), which she edited with Angela Rosenthal.

the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received the Turkish Presidential Order of Merit.

the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Slavic Linguistics in Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 2013–14 as well as the American Councils for International Education’s ACTR/ACCELS Title VIII Research Scholar Award for “Contact-induced change and attrition: assessing the impact of Russian.” She published Language Typology and Historical Contingency (John Benjamins Press, 2013), which she edited with Balthasar Bickel, David A. Peterson, and Alan Timberlake.

the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, published Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America (University of Chicago, 2014) and Colonisation, globalisation et avenir du français (Odile Jacob, 2014), which he edited with Cécile B. Vigouroux.

Associate Professor in Linguistics, published Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (Oxford University Press, 2013).

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, received a 2013–14 fellowship from the Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was also named Franz Rosenzweig Gastprofessor in den Humanwissenschaften at Univerität Kassel in Kassel, Germany. He edited The Cambridge History of World Music (Cambridge, 2014).

Lecturer in Music and Artist in Residence, was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and University Symphony Orchestra.