2014-2015

Jason Salavon

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, was Visiting Artist at Microsoft Research. His work was acquired by the Denver Art Museum and the Crocker Art Museum, and he exhibited 1000 Special Snowflakes at the Seattle Art Museum.

Jessica Stockholder

the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts, won the National Academy Museum Award for Excellence for work in exhibition in 2014. She exhibited Erstwhile & Notwithstanding and Palpable Glyphic Rapture at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, and SITE 20 Years at Site Santa Fe.

Jonathan Hall

the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and History, delivered the C. Densmore Curtis Memorial lecture at Bryn Mawr College and the 2015 Zamanakos Lecture at University of Massachusetts–Lowell.

Marta Ptaszynska

the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, received the Award of the President of Poland for outstanding achievements in creating music for children. Her composition "Gloria Artis" received a Special Award from the Polish Ministry of Culture, and she also published "5 Improvisations after J.R" (Polish Music Publications PWM).

Martha Feldman

the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music, published The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015) and was elected President of the American Musicological Society. Feldman received conference support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for "A Voice as Something More." She also received support from the UChicago Arts Council for Shulamit Ran's retirement concert and produced the film Inside New Music: The University of Chicago's Contempo Celebrates Fifty Years.

Michèle Lowrie

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).

Na'ama Rokem

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.

Irena Cajkova

Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, translated Sen kapitána Arsenia (El sueño del capitán Arsenio) (Prague: Meander Publishing, 2014) and Lisandro venčí rybičky (Lisandro pasea peces) (Prague: Meander Publishing, 2014).

Nada Petković

Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. She organized "The Serb Who Connected the World: A Celebration of the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (1854–1935)" at UChicago and "Serbian Film Retrospective" at the Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia in Chicago.

Kinga Kosmala

Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received support from the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies and UChicago Language Center to organize a Professional Development Workshop for Instructors of Polish. He also received a Chicago Studies Course Connections grant.

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