Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a Humanities Visiting Committee Faculty Research Grant.

Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received a Fulbright U.S. Scholars Fellowship for "Destination Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Objects, Materialities, and the Questions of Authenticity."

Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, won the 2014 MLA Howard R. Marraro Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Book or Essay for Dante and the Limits of the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He was also elected Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dante Studies.

Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, published Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (University of Toronto Press, 2015). She was awarded the UChicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring and also received the Albert W. Fields Award for best article published in Explorations in Renaissance Culture in 2013.

Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, published Alexandre Dumas: Fabrique d'immortalité (Classiques Garnier, 2014). He edited a special issue of L'Esprit Createur, "Michelet: Inventaire critique des notions-clés" (University of Minnesota Press). He received support from UChicago's Norman Wait Harris Fund and the Franke Institute for the Humanities for "Haiti: Beyond Commemorations." He also received support from the Office of the Dean of the College for "New Biographical Approaches to Literature" and he co-organized "Writers and Critics" with Thomas Pavel (the Gordon J.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, delivered the keynote addresses at the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology's annual meeting, and at the "Cultural Heritage Crisis in the Middle East" conference at the King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Director of the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), and David Schloen (see above).

Professor in Linguistics, was awarded the UChicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. He also received a National Science Foundation grant for "Meaning in Context" and a Humanities Visiting Committee Faculty Research Grant.

Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Historical Semantics and Legal Interpretation," a project with Alison LaCroix (Professor in the Law School).

Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to organize a course on bilingualism with Na'ama Rokem (Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and Sayed Kashua, an Israeli author and journalist.