Lecturer in Creative Nonfiction in the Committee on Creative Writing, received UChicago's Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.

Associate Professor in Music, won the Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory's Popular Music Interest Group for "A Foreign Sound to Your Ear: Bob Dylan Performs ‘It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding),' 1964–2009" (Music Theory Online, 2013). He also delivered the keynote address at the South Central Society of Music Theory's annual meeting.

Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society for "Cinemetrics across Boundaries."

Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a translation publication subvention for Victims of the Cultural Revolution (forthcoming).

Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies, co-organized "Content Based Instruction" at Cornell University.

Senior Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning.

Senior Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received grants from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning and a Chicago Studies Course Connections grant.

Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work, Honorable Mention for his translation of Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol (Yale University Press, 2014). He was also nominated by the Indian Consulate of Chicago as distinguished foreign scholar of Hindi.

the 20th meeting of the International Association of World Englishes at Amity University, and the Symposium about Language and Society at the University of Texas–Austin.

the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Music, published "Birds of Paradise for flute and piano," "The Humble Shall Inherit the Earth, Psalm 37 for chorus," and "Connecting the Dots for piano" (all by Theodore Presser Company). Her composition "Birds of Paradise," won the National Flute Association's 2015 Newly Published Music competition. She also delivered the Convocation Address at UChicago's 523rd Convocation.