This list includes the major awards, publications, and creative endeavors of Division of the Humanities faculty members from the 2012-2013 academic year (July 1 to June 30). All faculty members are listed with their rank and title as of June 30 of that year.
Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, received the Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from the College Art Association for her collaboration with coauthor Mary Miller, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (University of Texas Press, 2013). She was also awarded the College Art Association's Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award to support publication of The Cacaxtla Paintings (University of Texas Press, forthcoming 2015).
Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, cocurated the exhibition Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints with Anne Leonard at the Smart Museum of Art, which was named one of the “Ten Best Art and Design Shows of 2012” by Time Out Chicago. She also received the Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award from the College Art Association for her forthcoming In Search of Images: Kano Hogai and the Making of Modern Japanese-Style Painting (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Additionally, she was awarded a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities as well as a research grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Assistant Professor in Art History and the College, received a Faculty Small Grant from the University of Chicago African Studies Workshop.
Associate Professor in Art History and the College, coedited a special edition of the International Center of Medieval Art’s journal Gesta with Christopher Lakey. She also received the University's Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Chair of the Department of Art History and Associate Professor in Art History and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Material Matters, a collaborative project with the Smart Museum of Art to explore the significance that materials hold within the context of modern and contemporary art history.
the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, edited Tenth-Century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-Centered Age (Art Media Resources, 2013), 2011 Bali Conversations: Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art (Lingnan Art Publishing House, 2012; in English and Chinese), and coedited "Sarcophagi," issue 61/62 of the journal Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics with Visitng Professor of Art History Jas' Elsner. Hung also received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship in International and Area Studies, jointly awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor in Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College, edited an edition of the journal AREA Chicago entitled "Home Fronts, Housing Struggles" (issue #13).
Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies and the College, received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities as well as a research grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, English Language and Literature, and the College, was posthumously honored with the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award for Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno (University of California Press, 2011).
the William H. Colvin Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Art History, Comparative Literature, and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Cinemetrics Across Boundaries: A Collaborative Study of Montage, a project bringing together visiting scholars in order to produce an examination of this online repository of film data and its role in creating an emergent subfield of cinema studies.
the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities in Classics, History, Law and the College, 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 Michèle Lowrie, Eric Santner, and Eric Slauter, in addition to several scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences.
Professor in Classics and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Comparative Economics, a collaboration with David Schloen and E. Glen Weyl, a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Associate Professor in Classics and the College, received a 2012–13 residential research leave fellowship from the American School of Athens.
Professor in Classics and the College, was named a Visiting Fellow by the Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Political Theology, a series of biweekly workshops to define and refine a coherent agenda for a long-term, transdisciplinary research project on political theology in collaboration with Cliff Ando, Eric Santner, and Eric Slauter, in addition to several scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences.
University Professor in Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for History, Philology, and the Nation in the Chinese Humanities, a joint project with Judith Farquhar (Professor in Anthropology and Social Sciences) to bring in visiting scholars who can help provide a deeper understanding of the way humanistic scholarship is practiced in China.
Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, published a Japanese translation of his 2012 book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (Columbia University Press), entitled Sayonara amerika sayonara nippon: Sengo nihonjin wa donoyoni shite dokuji no popyura ongaku o seiritsu sasetaka (Byakuya Shobo, 2012).
Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awarded 2012–13 research leave fellowships from the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the American Association for University Women.
Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was awardeed a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Global Literary Networks, a collaborative digital humanities research project with Richard Jean So and Tom McEany, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, that examines the worldwide production, diffusion, and reception of literature.
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.
the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, published Desire/Love (Punctum Press, 2012), and her 2012 book Cruel Optimism (Duke University Pres) was selected for a seminar at the annual conference “The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies,” in collaboration with the Humanities Institute of Ireland. In addition to a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, she was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award from the Modern Language Association for Cruel Optimism, which also received an Honorable Mention for the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, and she was named the Northrop Frye Chair in Literary Theory at the University of Toronto, the Charles S. Holmes Distinguished Lecturer at Pomona College, the Gerald LeBoff Visiting Scholar at New York University, and a Visiting Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was selected as a participant in the First Book Institute of the Center for American Literary Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, a new program designed to identify and support junior scholars whose projects show exceptional promise.
the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture in English Language and Literature and Deputy Dean for Academic and Research Initiatives in the Humanities, received a 2012–13 residential research leave fellowship from the Huntington Library.
the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received an Eisner Award and a National Jewish Book award for MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Pantheon, 2011) by Art Spiegelman, for which she served as associate editor. She also received a research leave fellowship for 2012–13 from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she was a visiting scholar.
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received a 2013–16 grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society to support Game Changer Chicago, a joint project with Melissa Gilliam (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology/Pediatrics) in which faculty, students, and local youth collaborate to develop transmedia games, narratives, and art that explores issues related to emotional health, social justice, and digital literacies.
the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English Language and Literature, Art History, Visual Arts, and the College, was awarded a residential research leave fellowship from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, where he was the 2012–13 Beinecke Fellow.
the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Liberal Education in English Language and Literature and the College, received the Josephine A. Roberts Award for the Best Scholarly Edition of 2011 for Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, received an Honorable Mention for the Charles Bernheimer Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for his dissertation, "Careless Engagements: Literature, Science, and the Ethics of Indifference in Early Modernity."
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.
Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was awarded a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and was also an Affiliated Fellow of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Additionally, he received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Global Literary Networks, a collaborative digital humanities research project with Hoyt Long and Tom McEany, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, that examines the worldwide production, diffusion, and reception of literature.
the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, published Theorie der Form: Gerhard Richter und die Malerei des pragmatischen Zeitalters (Theory of the form: Gerhard Richter and the art of the pragmatic age; Carl Hanser Verlag, 2012).
the Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College and Director of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Voice Project, a collaboration with Martha Feldman and a number of other Humanities faculty members to explore the concept of "voice" in an interdisciplinary way.
the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies and the College, published a Spanish translation of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (University of Chicago Press, 2006), which he coauthored with Kenneth Reinhard and Slavoj Žižek. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Political Theology, a series of biweekly 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 Slauter, in addition to several scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences.
the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor in Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, edited Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (German quarterly magazine of literature and intellectual history). He was also named a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, received the University of Chicago Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.
Professor in Linguistics and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and Referencing, a project exploring the relation between action, gesture, and sign language in collaboration with Anastasia Giannakidou as well as scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences and Columbia College Chicago.
Professor in Linguistics and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and Referencing, a project exploring the relation between action, gesture, and sign language in collaboration with Diane Brentari as well as scholars from the UChicago Division of the Social Sciences and Columbia College Chicago.
the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor in Linguistics and the College, published a Mandarin edition of his 2001 book The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge University Press; translation by the Commercial Press Beijing, 2012).
Associate Professor of Linguistics and the College, published Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (Oxford University Press, 2013) and received the Best Paper Award at the LabPhon Conference on Laboratory Phonology.
the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor in Music and the College, published Hanns Eisler: “In der Musik ist es anders” (Hanns Eisler: “in music, it’s different”; Hentrich & Hentrich, 2012), which he coauthored with Andrea Bohlman, and Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity (Scarecrow Press, 2013). He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive, a collaborative project with Kaley Mason and the UChicago library to explore how the methods of “big science” might elucidate and facilitate the humanistic understanding of music, speech, and other audio expressions.
Assistant Professor in Music and the College, received funding from the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Music, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies to support the symposium "Benjamin Britten: Spheres of Influence."
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Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in Music and the College, received a 2012–13 residential research leave fellowship from the Yale Institute for Sacred Music.
the Avalon Foundation Professor in Music and the College and Deputy Dean in the Humanities, published The Sound World of Father Mersenne: Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression (Garland Press, 2013).
the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in Music and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for The Voice Project, a collaboration with David Levin and a number of other Humanities faculty members to explore the concept of "voice" in an interdisciplinary way. She was also awarded a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Associate Professor in Music and the College, received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology in Music and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive, a collaborative project with Philip V. Bohlman and the UChicago library to explore how the methods of “big science” might elucidate and facilitate the humanistic understanding of music, speech, and other audio expressions.
the Helen B. & Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in Music and the College, published "Concerto for Percussion Solo, Orchestra & Electronics" (Polish Music Publications, 2012) and an arrangement of "Variations on Paganini" by W. Lutoslawski (Polish Music Publications, 2012). She also received an award from the American Society of Composers.
Associate Professor in Music and the College, received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory and was invited by the Society's President to lead the inaugural Peer-Learning Program workshop at their 2013 Annual Meeting.
University Professor in Music and the College, published "Resounding Earth" along with several other compositions. She also was awarded the Order of Lincoln, a prize recognizing local "contributions to the betterment of humanity" from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in conjunction with the state governor.
Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, received grants from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for What are Arab Jewish Texts? Texts and Questions of Context, a project exploring the ways in which Jewish political thought and literature were transformed in the medieval and modern periods as a result of their interactions with Muslim and Arab cultures, as well as Iraq’s Intelligentsia Under Siege: 1980–2012, which analyzes Iraq’s intellectual landscape from the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980 to the present day.
Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, was inducted into the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, published Case in Semitic: Roles, Relations, and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2013) and coedited Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Oriental Institute, 2012).
the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, edited The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (Oriental Institute, 2012).
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Evliy Çelebi’s Journey from Bursa to the Dardanelles and Edirne: From the Fifth Book of the Seyatnme (Brill, 2013).
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of 'Ali, an edition and translation of the Dustur ma‘alim al-hikam compiled by al-Qadi al-Quda'i, with the Mi' at kalimah (One Hundred Proverbs) attributed to al-Jahiz (New York University Press, 2013).
Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Zionist Remaking of Literary Space (Northwestern University Press, 2013).
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College, published OCHRE: An Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (Eisenbrauns 2012), which he coauthored with Sandra R. Schloen. He also received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the Working Group on Comparative Economics, a collaboration with Alain Bresson and E. Glen Weyl, a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Oriental Institute, and the College, 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 Edward Shaughnessy.
Associate Professor in Philosophy and the College, received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
the Chester D. Tripp Professor in Philosophy and the College, published Le perfectionnisme de Nietzsche, translated by Pascal Duval (Amazon Kindle, 2012). He also received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen, delivered the Inaugural Lecture of the Voltaire Lecture Series, and participated in a conference at the University of Bonn titled “Perspectives on the Work of James Conant.”
the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in Philosphy, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, the Divinity School, and the College, was named an officer in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and the College, published Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (Polish Edition, Fundacja Agusta Hr. Cieszskiego, 2013) and edited Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (Yale University Press, 2013). He also received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and the College and Director of the Civic Knowledge Project, received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
the William H. Colvin Professor in Philosophy and the College, published The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide (Harvard University Press, 2013) and was named President of the Association for Jewish Philosophy for 2013–14.
the Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and the College, received the 2013 David L. Hull Prize from the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.
the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and the College, edited Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2013).
Associate Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was elected to the MLA Executive Committee on Medieval French Literature.
the Howard L. Willett Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, coedited Les Liens humains dans la littérature (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) (Classiques Garnier, 2012) with Julia Chamard-Bergeron and Thomas Pavel.
Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, edited L'arte del ricordare (Angelo Longo Editore, 2012).
the Benjamin Franklin Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and the College, was named a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies.
Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Theatre and Performance Studies, and the College, received the Modern Language Association’s 2011 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies for his book The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
the Gordon J. Laird Distinguished Service Professor of French Literature in Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, co-edited Les Liens humains dans la littérature (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) (Classiques Garnier, 2012) with Julia Chamard-Bergeron and Philippe Desan.
the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Anthropology, and the College, was named an honorary member of the Albanian Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a 2012–13 research leave fellowship in International and Area Studies, jointly awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College, published Rzeczy i Zaglada (Universitas, 2012).
Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for A Worldwide Literature: Jāmī (1414–1492) in the Dar al-Islam and Beyond, a project studying the reception of the works one of the most widely read authors in the Eurasian continent from the 1400s through the early modern period.
the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, published On Hinduism (Aleph, 2013).
Senior Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his translation of Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi (UWA Publishing, 2012).
Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented several exhibitions including Ill Form and Void Full at the Yancy Richardson Gallery, New York; Mid-Career Survey at the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba; Laura Letinsky: Still Life, at the Denver Museum of Art; and a group exhibition at Oakville Galleries, Ontario.
Associate Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition entitled Forlesen at the Renaissance Society on the University of Chicago Campus and presented several group exhibitions, including a screening of his film Reenactor in Tennessee and an installation of his Skin Set Travelling Painting Project in New York.
Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented solo exhibitions at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; and Eight Moderns, New Mexico, along with group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Austin Museum of Art, Texas; and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. He also completed a commission for the US Census Bureau and was selected as one of the “50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists” by Art + Auction magazine.
Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition at the University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and group exhibitions at the David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Aurel Scheibler, Berlin; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and the Glasgow International Biennale, Glasgow.
the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in Visual Arts and the College and Chair of Visual Arts, presented solo exhibitions at La Fundacíon Barrieé in Vigo, Spain, and the Barbara Edwards Gallery in Toronto, as well as a group exhibition at the Basel Art Fair. She also completed a commission of a permanent outdoor work at Les Abattoirs: Musée d'art Moderne et Conyemporain á Toulouse, received an Honorary Degree from Columbia College Chicago, and received an Anonymous Was a Woman grant to support her practice.
Associate Professor in Visual Arts and the College, presented a solo exhibition at the Frieze Art Fair in New York and group exhibitions at ICA Philadelphia; Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris; and the Baltic Triennial for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania.