Associate Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received UChicago's Curricular Development award and a Humanities Visiting Committee Research Grant.

Associate Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He received conference support grants from UChicago's Council on International Studies, the Committee for Central Eurasian Studies, and the Center for International Studies for the 2016 Conference in Central Eurasian Studies. Bird also received a grant from the UChicago Center in Beijing to support a Russian-Chinese intellectual history conference in collaboration with Clemson University.

Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, co-edited a special issue of Littérature, "Valère Novarina: une poétique théologique?" with Olivier Dubouclez (Université de Liège).

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, published the translation of Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad (New York University Press, 2015), co-translated with the editors of the Library of Arabic Literature.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World's First Writing Systems," a project with Edward Shaughnessy (the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations). He and Shaughnessy also received support from the UChicago Center in Beijing for the conference "Signs of Writing."

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and 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 Gil Stein (see below).

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.

Associate Professor in Music, delivered the 2014 Derry Lecture at Western University. He also co-curated a micro-exhibition in conjunction with the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices, with David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought).

Associate Professor in Germanic Studies, co-edited Auftreten: Wege auf die Bühne (Theater der Zeit, 2014) with Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz). He also received a 2014–15 research leave fellowship from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities.

Associate Professor in English Language & Literature, received the 2014 Push and Kick Award for Excellence in the World of Graphic Books from the Society of Illustrators. She also delivered the keynote address at "Comics, Theory, Practice" at the University of Oregon–Eugene.