Associate Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was named a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Political Theology, a series of bi-weekly workshops to define and refine a coherent agenda for a long-term, transdisciplinary research project on political theology in collaboration with Cliff Ando, Michèle Lowrie, and Eric Santner, in addition to several scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences.