Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures, was elected President of the North American Association of Teachers of Polish (NAATPI).

Lecturer in Visual Arts, received a grant from the Propeller Fund for Fielding (with Sara Black and Billy Dee)

Lecturer in English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing, was selected for New York City Lit 50 Writers of Note. Her book Blind was chosen for the Illinois Reads Selection and the Library Guild Selection.

Lecturer in Philosophy, delivered the keynote speech “A Solution to the Paradox of Perfection” at the Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Club Conference.

the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received UChicago’s Gray Center Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship

Professor in Linguistics, served as co-director of the 2015 LSA Summer Linguistics Institute and was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. He received a grant from the Standing Committee of Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) of Hong Kong for “From speech to spelling: Improving Chinese proficiency of non-Chinese speaking students through Cantonese Speech Learning,” and a grant from the Social and Humanities Research Council for “Heritage Languages speakers in Toronto: What do they tell sociolinguists?”

the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received the National Achievement Award from Life magazine China. He was awarded the Slade Professorship from Oxford University and the Guanghua Professorship from Fudan University. He curated the exhibition Twin Traks: Video Works by Yang Fudong at YUZ Museum in Shanghai. He published Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China (UChicago Press, 2016) and Exhibiting Contemporary Art in the 1990s (OCAT Institute, 2016).

Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Committee on Creative Writing, received grants from the Women’s Board of the University of Chicago and the Poetry Foundation for the Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Conference.

Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures, delivered the MAPH Distinguished Faculty Lecture. Her 2015 book The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900–1923 was on the shortlist for the Krazsna-Krausz Foundation’s Best Moving Image Book Award.