Lecturer in Slavic Languages & Literatures, received support from UChicago's Norman Waits Harris Fund and Arts Planning Council Course Resource Fund for the "Balkan Rhythms" lecture and workshop.

Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, curated an exhibition on artist Rafi Hawue at UChicago.

Lecturer in South Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler travel grant from the University of Chicago. She also organized a Kathakali lecture-cum-demonstration with Kathakali artists from the Kerala Kalamandalam as well as the 5th Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literatures, both at UChicago.

Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing, published Blind (Penguin 2014). She received a 2014 MacDowell Writing Residency and a Best Fiction 2014 Nomination from the Young Adult Library Services Association.

Lecturer in Visual Arts, exhibited Were There Many at Luther College Gallery; Converse at Indiana University Northwest in Gary; The Tea Project at Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence, KS, and High Concept Laboratories in Chicago; How to Unmake and American Quilt at the Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago; Happening at Site A at Site A in Chicago; and Urbs in Horto at the Kochi Biennale in Kochi, India.

Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a Distinguished Service Award for Teaching from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lecturer in Yiddish in Germanic Studies, received a Posen Foundation Fellowship.

Professor in Art History, received a grant from the UChicago Arts Council's the Course Resource Fund. She delivered the lecture "Concrete Traffic" for the MAPH Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series and also co-convened the conference "Salvage 2.1: Reanimation" at the Neubauer Collegium.

Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received support from UChicago's Arts Council and Center for Latin American Studies for the Spanish Film Club.

Lecturer in Romance Languages & Literatures, received a UChicago Language Center Advisory Board travel grant and a Chicago Studies Course Connections grant.