Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of Language Programs, was the lead presenter at the 9th National Chinese Language Conference.

Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received the Janel M. Mueller Award for Excellence in Pedagogy.

the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received UChicago’s Gray Center Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship

Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, published Firm-and-Even’s Records from Beyond the Seas: The Second Collection of A Different View of Ancient History (Shnaghai Guji chubanshe, 2016).

Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a 2015–16 research leave fellowship from UChicago’s Franke Institute for the Humanities for the project “The Kingly Crafts: Large-Scale Production and the Rise of State Craft Industries in Bronze Age China.”

the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received the Gold Award from the Council of Advancement in Support of Education for "Envisioning China." She also received support from UChicago's Franke Institute for the Humanities for the conference "The Voice as Something More."

the Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for "Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World's First Writing Systems," a project with Christopher Woods (Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute). He and Woods also received support from the UChicago Center in Beijing for the conference "Signs of Writing."

the Centennial Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received support from the U.S. Department of Education for the Center for East Asian Studies' NRC and FLAS programs.

Senior Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, received a translation publication subvention for Victims of the Cultural Revolution (forthcoming).

Professor in East Asian Languages & Civilizations, co-edited Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 15: Performance in Japanese Literature (Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2014) with Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan) and Hoyt Long (Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations). He also delivered two public lectures as a part of the NEAC Distinguished Speaker Program.