the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and History, published The Making of Ancient Greek Economy (Princeton University Press, 2016) and received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade.”

Associate Professor in Art History, received an Arvey Book Award Honorable Mention from the Association for Latin American Art.

the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture in English Language and Literature, published Other Things (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Professor in Visual Arts, was awarded the Artes Mundi Prize, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the inaugural Kennedy Center Award for the Human Spirit, the Brandeis University Richman Distinguished Fellowship in Public Life, the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Social Progress, and the KLEO Barret Award. He exhibited “How to Build a Museum” at the Art Gallery of Ontario, “Saltwater” at the 14th Istanbul Biennial, and performed “All the World’s Futures” at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Assistant Professor in Art History, was awarded the 2015 American Academy of Religion Best First Book in the History of Religions and the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Studies. She also received the Franklin Pease G.Y. Memorial Prize for the best article to appear in Colonial Latin American Review between 2013 and 2014 and received an honorable mention for the 2015 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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”.