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.

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

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).

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.

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 Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was the composer in residence at Steans Music Institute and Weekend of Chamber Music Concerts. She published Hallel for Organ (Theodore Presser Company, 2014). Her composition “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory—String Quartet No. 3” was premiered by UChicago resident performers the Pacifica Quartet and her “Birds of Paradise” was premiered by the Chicago Flute Club.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published a translation of Ma’sumeh Shirazi by Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh entitled Ma'sumeh of Shiraz (Association for the Study of Persian Literature, 2013).

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern languages and Civilizations, served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Chicago chapter.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, delivered the 22nd annual Sabbagh Lecture at the University of Arizona. He also served as president for the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq.