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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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 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?