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."

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.

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 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).

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.

Assistant Professor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received conference support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for "Found in Translation."

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, published Showing up to Withhold (University of Chicago Press, 2014). He won the Common Good Spirit Award for Activism in the Arts 2015. He exhibited Trinket at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Gold People Shit in Their Valet at Galerie Catherine Bastide. He screened Small Cup and Reenactor at the Geffen Contemporary, The Long White Cloud at Black Cinema House, and Reenactor at the Addams Gallery.

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.

Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy, received the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis, awarded by the Humboldt Foundation. He was also awarded a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "The Idealism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities," a collaboration with Robert Pippin (the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Social Thought and Philosophy) and David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies).