the Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, organized "Theatrophobia: Theorizing Theater Antitheatrically" at the Sorbonne and "Classicisms" at the University of Chicago.

the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language & Literature, delivered the Ioan Davies Distinguished Lecture at York University and the keynote address, "Sensing the Commons," at the International Association of Geographers. She was also the Stavro Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Trent University.

the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, published Contemporary Chinese Art: A History (London: Themes&Hudson, 2014); Rong Rong's East Village (Shanghai: Renmin chubanshe, 2014); and Liu Xiaodong: Art in Action (Shanghai: Renmin chubanshe, 2014). He curated Rong Rong's East Village at the Smart Museum of Art and Myth/History I and Myth/History II at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai.

the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, received a Doctoral Dissertation Research grant from the National Science Foundation for work to be conducted by Erin Franklin (graduate student in Slavic Languages and Literatures). She delivered keynote addresses at UChicago's Humanities Day 2014 and the 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. She also organized the Arctic Indigenous Language Symposium's Sustainable Development Working Group.

the Language in Daghestan conference at UChicago, and the 20th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference at the University of Utah.

the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, 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 Christopher Woods (Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute). He and Woods also received support from the UChicago Center in Beijing for the conference "Signs of Writing."

Professor in Philosophy, delivered the plenary lecture at "Values in a Changing World."

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, exhibited Glove in Hand at the Aurel Scheibler gallery in Berlin.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies, co-organized "Rhythm: A Transdisciplinary Concept," a workshop and conference.

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.