the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies, published The Weight of Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015). A German translation was published of his 2011 book The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty.

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, exhibited The Master Index at Expo Chicago, All the Ways at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, and Soliloquy: Jason Salavon at the Public Trust in Dallas, Texas. Two of his pieces were acquired by the Baltimore Art Museum, and the UC–Berkeley Art Museum.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2016).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for his project “Climate Change: Disciplinary Challenges to the Humanities and the Social Sciences.”

Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures andTheater and Performance Studies, was appointed visiting professor at the Université Paris Sorbonne in December 2015.

Professor of Practice in the Arts in Visual Arts, exhibited Big Boss and the Ecstasy of Pressures at the Block Museum in Evanston, IL, for which he received a publication grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and participated in the group exhibition A Painting is a Painting Isn’t a Painting at the Kadist Foundation in Paris. He also served as Artist in Residence at ACRE in Stuben, WI.

Associate Professor in Visual Arts, delivered the keynote address “Far-Sited: Creating and Conserving Art in Public Places” at the Getty Conservation Institute. He held the solo exhibitions Forest at Susan Vielmetter Projects in New York City, Desert at the Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, and exhibitions at the Independent Art Fair in New York City and Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Basel, Munich, New York City, New Haven, Minneapolis, Detroit, Brooklyn, London, Boston, and Chicago.

Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music, published the compositions Missa Somenis for three soloists, two mixed choirs, and orchestra and Improvisations after J.R.

the Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor in Music, was appointed Interim Dean of the Division of the Humanities. She was also named Honorary Member of the Musicology Society.

Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, published Pindar and the Emergence of Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and co-edited Persistent Forms: Exploration in Historical Poetics (Fordham University Press, 2015).