Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College and Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, edited Bai Ganyo, a novel by Aleko Konstantinov (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), which he translated with Christina E. Kramer, Grace E. Fielder, and Catherine Rudin; published The Balkan Languages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) with Brian Joseph; and received the Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic/East European Languages.