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

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

the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy, received 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 James Conant (Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy) and David Wellbery (the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies).

the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema & Media Studies, published The Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (University of Amsterdam Press, 2015). He also received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema Studies.

the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Philosophy, received support from the Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education for the Chicago Moral Philosophy Seminar.

the Centennial Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received support from the U.S. Department of Education for the Center for East Asian Studies' NRC and FLAS programs.

the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music, published The Work of Music Theory (Ashgate, 2014). He also delivered the keynote address at the Oregon Conference for Graduate Musicians at the University of Oregon.