Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “The Idealism Project.”

the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, delivered keynote lectures at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Cambridge University in Cambridge, and at SOCINE (the Brazilian Society for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received grants from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium, Center in Hong Kong, and Center in Beijing for his project “The Past For Sale.”

Professor of Archeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from the US Department of State–Kabul Embassy for the “Afghan Heritage Mapping Project: Documenting Archeological Looting in Afghanistan.” He received a planning grant from the Carnegie Corporation for “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of States in Transition: The Chicago Center for Archeological Heritage Preservation (CCAHP),” and received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Past For Sale.”

Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, was named the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dante Studies.

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.

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.

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

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).

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?”