Associate Professor of Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain: Proyectos del Plan Nacional for “La Memoria Escrita: Texto, Materialidad y Contexto de las Colecciones papiraceas espanolas.” She curated and edited the catalog for the exhibition Pharoah’s Reeds: A Papyrus Journey Up the Nile” in Barcelona. She translated two works: Obras completas de Filón de Alejandría vol.

Professor of Archeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received a grant from the US Department of State–Kabul Embassy for the “Afghan Heritage Mapping Project: Documenting Archeological Looting in Afghanistan.” He received a planning grant from the Carnegie Corporation for “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of States in Transition: The Chicago Center for Archeological Heritage Preservation (CCAHP),” and received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Past For Sale.”

Associate Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, delivered the keynote lecture at the Annual Aharoni Day Symposium at Tel Aviv University. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “CRESCAT: A Computational Research Ecosystem for Scientific Collaboration on Ancient Topics” and received a grant from UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for the project “Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade.”

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2016).

Associate Professor Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, published The Archeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: The Settlements from the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and received a research leave fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies for her project “The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: The Settlements from the Second Intermediate Period to the End of the Third Intermediate Period.”

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, received the Khayrallah Prize in Middle Eastern Diaspora Studies.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, co-edited Nimrud: The Queens’ Tombs (Oriental Institute, 2016).

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, published a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "The Archeology of Sasanian Politics" (De Gruyter, 2014). He received a course grant from the UChicago Center for Disciplinary Innovation, a grant from the Oriental Institute to support the "Iranian World in Late Antiquity" lecture series, a grant to support the Shaul Shaked lecture series from the UChicago Center for Jewish Studies, and a UChicago Center in Paris grant to support the Cosmopolitanism Workshop.

Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, received a grant from UChicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to organize a course on bilingualism with Anastasia Giannakidou (Professor in Linguistics) and Sayed Kashua, an Israeli author and journalist.

Professor in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Oriental Institute, delivered the keynote addresses at the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology's annual meeting, and at the "Cultural Heritage Crisis in the Middle East" conference at the King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas.