the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Classics, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the Nineteenth Century BCE," a project with Ali Hortacsu (Professor in Economics), Kerem Cosar (Assistant Professor in Economics), Gil Stein (Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Oriental Institute), and David Schloen (Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Oriental Institute). He organized the Onassis Lecture in Hellenic Culture at the University of Houston