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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.