the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Linguistics, was awarded the 2014 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He received grants from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities and Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund to plan the 19th Biennial Balkan and South Slavic Conference.