the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music and the Humanities, received a research leave fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies for his project “Fétis and the Tonal Imagination: French Discourses of Musical Tonality in the Nineteenth Century.”

Assistant Professor in Music, received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Plus Annual Award. He was also named the Daniel R Lewis Young Composer Fellow for the Cleveland Orchestra.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “Aspiration.”

David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities in Classics and History, published Religion et gouvernement dans l’Empire romain (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016) and edited Citizenship and Empire in Europe, 200–1900: The Antonine Constitution after 1800 Years (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016). He also delivered the 2015 Maestro Lectures at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

Associate 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.

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Art History, received a Faculty Research Grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for “Changing Spatial and Social Ecology of Renaissance Florence” in collaboration with John Padgett, Professor in Political Science.

the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, published Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Frugal (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, delivered a Katz Distinguished Lecture at the University of Washington.

the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History in Music, published Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism (University of California Press, 2016), which received the Bruno Netti Prize for the Outstanding Book on the History of Ethnomusicology from the Society of Ethnomusicology. He also co-edited Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual (Oxford University Press, 2016).

the Mary K. Werkman Professor of Linguistics, received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, and the Templeton Foundation.