the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early Chinese Studies in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College and Chair of EALC, published a Chinese translation of his 2006 book, Rewriting Early Chinese Texts (SUNY Press). He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World’s First Writing Systems, an investigation of the cultural and social contexts and structural properties of the world’s oldest writing systems conducted in collaboration with Christopher Woods.