Professor in Philosophy, was awarded the University’s 2014 Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He also received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the symposium Is Health Care a Human Right?

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, received the Consolider Grant (Spain) for “Patrimonio teatral clasico espanol.” He was elected Honorary President of the Early Modern Text and Image Society and was invited by Queen Sofia of Spain to present his research.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri (Signature Books, 2013).

Senior Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2013) and received UChicago’s Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.

Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for “Models of Handshape Articulatory Phonology for Recognition and Analysis of American Sign Language,” a collaborative research project with Jason Riggle (Associate Professor in Linguistics).

Associate Professor in Linguistics, published Plains Cree Morphosyntax (Routledge, 2013).

Professor of Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago’s Richard And Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for a joint research project on bilingualism with Na’ama Rokem (Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations).

Professor of Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the research project “Subjectivity in Language and Thought” with Malte Willer (Assistant Professor in Philosophy).