Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “The Unredemptive Middle Ages.”

Professor in Linguistics, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Historical Semantics and Legal Interpretation.”

Professor in Art History, received grants from the Logan Family Foundation and the Friends of Heritage Preservation Foundation for the conservation of the Wolf Vostell sculpture Concrete Traffic.

Assistant Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Front Lines: Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, published Preserving the Spell: Basile’s The Tale of Tales in the Fairy-Tale Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Classics, received a fellowship from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the Dirk Ippen Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin for her research project “Safety, and Salvation in Roman Political Thought”.

Associate Professor in Art History, received a scholar grant from the Chiang-Ching Kuo Foundation for his book project “History Of China’s Performative Architecture.” He received a grant from the Beijing Center for the Tianlongshan Cave Scanning project.

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “The Kingly Crafts: Large-Scale Production and the Rise of State Craft Industries in Bronze Age China.”

the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies, was the conceptual collaborator in a performance of Jephta’s Daughter choreographed by Sarr Magal and performed at the Haus der Kunst. He received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “After Regie: Opera, Performance, and the Stakes of Representation” and delivered the keynote address at UChicago’s Humanities Day 2015.

Professor in Visual Arts, curated Unsuspending Disbelief in Chicago, Looking Askance in Delhi (co-curated with Jessica Moss), and STAIN (in collaboration with John Paul Morabito). She performed Cage Unrequited at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She received the Canada Council International Residency,at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and her 2015 book was listed by PDN Photo as a Best Photography Book of 2015, American Photography Magazine as one of the 10 Best Photography Books of 2015, and was named to the Scotia Bank Photography Prize Short List.