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

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.

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

the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, published Red Rays for Flute and Piano (Cracow: Polish Music Publications, 2013). She received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was awarded the Gloria Artis from the Secretary of Arts and Culture in Poland for outstanding achievement in the arts.

University Professor of Composition in Music, was awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. She premiered several compositions in 2013–14: “Saxophone Concerto” at the New Haven Symphony, “Bassoon Concertino” at the Double Reed Society Conference, “Starlight Ribbons” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theatre, and “Twilight Butterfly” at UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts. Her piece “Of Paradise and Light” was performed by the All-Star Orchestra on PBS, and her piece “Resounding Earth” was performed at the Chamber Music America Conference.

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.

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities. She also received a grant from UChicago’s Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry for a joint research project on bilingualism with Anastasia Giannakiudou (Professor of Linguistics).