Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Arts, received a studio fellowship from the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, published The Hittite Demonstratives: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, was named a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center during his research leave in 2014–15.

Assistant Professor of Music, received a Grammy Nomination with Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Landmarks (Blue Note, 2014). He was also awarded a grant from the Norman Wait Harris Fund for "The Bridge: A Collaboration between Chicago and French Jazz Artists"

Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation for "A Typological Analysis of Handshape: Gesture, Homesign, and Sign Language."

the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, served as President of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro and was the Honorary President of EMIT (the Early Modern Text and Image Society). He delivered the keynote addresses at the Kaleidoscope Conference at the University of Wisconsin and at the Chicago Cervates Symposium at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago. He curated "Literary Narratives in Painting” in conjunction the Smart Museum of Art's anniversary exhibit, Objects and Voices.

Associate Professor in Classics, co-edited Eriugena and Creation. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9–12 November 2012 (Brepolis Publishers, 2014) with Willemien Otten (Professor in the Divinity School). He received support from UChicago's Center in Paris, Late Antique and Byzantine Workshop, Medieval Studies Workshop, and Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize "Contemporary French Scholars on Classical and Medieval Texts."