Assistant Professor in Philosophy, received a grant from the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights to fund the “Justice at Work” initiative.

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, received the University of Chicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring, and the Mark Ashin Fellowship for Excellence in College Teaching. She also received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “Women and Children First: Early English Feminism and the Invention of Children’s Literature.”

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, delivered the keynote address “Paper Witness: Voices and Documents in Contemporary French Literature” at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures.

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, published Network Aesthetics (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and co-authored the exhibition catalog The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer (MIT Press, 2016) with Michael Maizels of Wellesley College. He received two grants from the National Institutes of Health for “Hexacago: A game-based approach to engaging youth in health and science” with co-investigator and BSD professor Melissa Gilliam.

Professor of Practice in Cinema and Media Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received the Khayrallah Prize in Middle Eastern Diaspora Studies.

the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and Cinema and Media Studies, co-authored The Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) and received an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.

the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics, delivered three keynote lectures: “Language Endangerment: Definition, Ideologies, Theories, and Representations” and “Revitalizing Definitions and Approaches” at the University of Buea and University of Yaounde, Camaroon and “Women’s Education in a Global World” at Mody University, Lakshmangarh, India.

Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics and Computer Science, published Empiricist Approaches to Language Learnability (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, co-edited Nimrud: The Queens’ Tombs (Oriental Institute, 2016).