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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Associate Professor in Classics, was elected corresponding member to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich and Socius to the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino in Florence. He received a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He served as visiting Scholar (October–December 2015) at the Centre Michel de Boüard — CRAHAM (Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales) at the University of Caen.