Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts, had solo exhibits at the Kavi Gupta Gallery, the Smart Museum of Art, Cleaopatra Gallery in New York City, Mitchell Innes and Nash Gallery, and Nacht St. Stephan Gallery. She exhibited work at Color Jam Houston, Hauser Wirth and Schimmel Gallery, MK Restaurant, and Expo Chicago. She also received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Open Fields: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Very Idea of a Natural History.”

Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, received a grant from the Women’s Board of the University of Chicago for the South Side Home Movie Project.

the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy, published a paperback edition of Metaphor in Context. He was awarded a Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg.

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

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 South Asian Languages and Civilizations, co-curated the exhibition Envisioning South Asia: Texts, Scholarship, Legacies at the UChicago Special Collections Research Center.

Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, delivered the keynote address “Horror Old and New: Nakata Hideo’s Ringu (1998) between J-Horror and Hibakusha Cinema,” at the “Why All the Fuss about the Body” conference at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received a research leave fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies for his project “Light without Heat: Shades of Feeling in the Age of Scientific Revolution.”

Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Firm-and-Even’s Records from Beyond the Seas: The Second Collection of A Different View of Ancient History (Shnaghai Guji chubanshe, 2016).