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).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, cocurated In Rememberance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East at UChicago’s Oriental Institute.

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

Assistant Professor in Music, received a special project grant from the UChicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies for a series of workshops. He was also elected president of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music.

Associate Professor in Music, received an honorable mention for the Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding English Language Monograph from the Society for Ethnomusicology for Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene (University of California Press, 2012).

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music, received a book subvention from the Gustave Reese Endowment of the American Musicological Society and book publication support from the UChicago Humanities Visiting Committee Fund. She received funding from the UChicago Provost’s Office for the documentary Put it On: Performing Arts and Education with the University of Chicago’s Contempo.

Assistant Professor in Music, was awarded funding from the New Music USA Composer Assistance Program to premiere SynchroniCities with the Talea Ensemble. He also won the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, Commission, and received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. His commissioned composition Bagatelles premiered at the Heidelberger Frühling festival, and his piece Lyra was premiered by the New York Philharmonic.

Assistant Professor in Music, exhibited the sound installation Even in Arcadia, there I am at the Play as Inquiry practicum at UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, delivered the plenary address at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University.

Associate Professor in Music, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. He was named editor of Oxford Studies in Music Theory.