the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College, published Makedonistički Studii (Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), Očerki lakskogo jazyka (Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011), and coedited Macedonian Matters: Proceedings of the Seventh Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies with Donald L. Dyer (a special supplement of the journal Balkanista, 2012). He was recently elected to the scientific committee of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies; he recieved the Award of Appreciation for Contributions to Albanology from the Seminar for Albanian Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Prishtina and the Award of Appreciation for Contributions to the Study of Macedonian and the Languages of Macedonia from the FON University. In addition, he was a finalist for the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association and for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year in the fiction-multicultural category for Bai Ganyo, a nineteenth-century novel he edited and translated.