the Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, received the 2015 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for The Lives of the Novel (Princeton University Press, 2013). The monograph was an International Society for the Study of Narrative Winner and shortlisted for the 2014 Christian Gauss Prize from the Phi Beta Kappa Society; it was also released in Italian and French translations.

the Chester D. Tripp Professor in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, was awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the Theravada Buddhist Civilizations Project, a collaboration with Juliane Schober (Arizona State University).

Associate Professor in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing, published the poem "Pop Quiz" in Little Star 6. He also received grants in support of a 2014–15 research leave from the National Endowment for the Arts and Creative Capital.

the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, published Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (Cambridge University Press, 2015) with Alessandro Schiesaro (Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza,' Italy). Bartsch-Zimmer also delivered the Renato Poggiolo Lecture at Harvard University.

Assistant Professor in Music, received funding from the Goethe Institut Chicago and UChicago's Art Council, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Office of the Deputy Provost of the Arts for "there is no repetition: Mathias Spahlinger at 70."

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, published a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "The Archeology of Sasanian Politics" (De Gruyter, 2014). He received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation, a grant from the Oriental Institute to support the "Iranian World in Late Antiquity" lecture series, a grant to support the Shaul Shaked lecture series from the UChicago Center for Jewish Studies, and a UChicago Center in Paris grant to support the Cosmopolitanism Workshop.

the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music, authored and was the artistic director for a double-CD set and accompanying booklet of As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music, 1925–1955. He co-edited The Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl (Rowman and Littlefiled, 2015) with Victoria Lindsay Levine (Colorado College) and served as Artistic Director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History, received the Villa I Tatti Prize for the Best Article by a Junior Scholar from the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies. He also delivered the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Lecture on Architecture at the Chicago Humanities Festival.

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

Professor in Classics, co-edited Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (Routledge, Law and Literature Series, 2015) with Susanne Lüdemann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).