Assistant Professor in Music, released a portrait CD, "Roundabouts," recorded and released by the Ensemble Modern. He also premiered several pieces: "Roundabouts," at the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Civitas Ensemble concert; "More Marginalia" with the Atlas Ensemble; "SynchroniCities" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and "Après une lecture" at the Impuls Festival. He was appointed as the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow of the Cleveland Orchestra for 2015–17 and won the 2015 ASCAP Plus Annual Award.

Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures, received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation for the PhD seminar "Technologies of Enslavement: Performativity and Bondage in Transatlantic and Transpacific Perspectives." She also delivered the keynote address at the "Color in the Early Modern Atlantic World" conference at UChicago.

University Professor in Comparative Literature, co-wrote Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications (Routledge, 2015) with César Dominguez (University of Santiago de Compostela) and Darío Villanueva (Real Academia Española). He co-edited Intersections, Interferences, Interdisciplines: Literature with Other Arts (P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2014) with Gerald Gillespie (Stanford University).

the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received the Gold Award from the Council of Advancement in Support of Education for "Envisioning China." She also received support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for the conference "The Voice as Something More."

the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy, received the Prize for the Best Book in the History of Philosophy Published in 2013 awarded by the Board of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. He was elected Fellow to the American Academy of Jewish Research and appointed Trustee at the Maimonides Center for Jewish Studies. He was the Russell Berrie Professor at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas's John Paul II Center.

the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, 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), Gil Stein (Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Oriental Institute), and David Schloen (Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Oriental Institute).

the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature, received the American Comparative Literature Association's Renee Wellek Prize of the for his book Trade and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English in the Department of English Language & Literature, delivered the keynote address at "The Prosaic Imaginary: Novels and the Everyday, 1750–2000" at the University of Sydney and the keynote address at the "Virginia Woolf: Writing the World" conference at Loyola University Chicago.

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in and the Divinity School and South Asian Languages & Civilizations, published The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Hinduism (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015), On Hinduism (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Pluralism and Democracy in India (Oxford University Press, 2015). She also delivered the 2015 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture of the American Council for Learned Societies.

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."