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 Romance Languages and Literatures, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “Mexico’s Itinerant Objects: Practices of Writing, Perception and Material Culture.”

Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature, coedited Auden at Work (Palgarve Macmillan, 2015) and was Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library in 2015–2016.

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.

Assistant Professor in Art History, published Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (University of Chicago Press, 2015). She also received a CEAS Title IV Media Grant from the UChicago Center for East Asian Studies to develop a website of Meiji Japanese prints at the Smart Museum of Art.

Frank and Gertrude Springer Professor in Classics, received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity.”

Associate Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, co-edited and co-translated Lost Evenings, Lost Lives: Tamil Poets on Sri Lanka’s War, which won the English PEN Translates Award.

the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Committee on Social Thought, published Redeeming the Kamasutra (Oxford University Press, 2016).

the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, won the Grand Prix de l’Académie pour le Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises and was also awarded the Prix Pierre-Georges Castex de littérature française de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politique.

Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, was a contributor to Alain Chartier c.1385–1430: Father of French Eloquence (Brill, 2015).