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UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT, PROFESSIONAL, & COMMUNITY SERVICE

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (Fall 2003 -- )

Department
Chair, Department of Political Science (2003-2010)

Faculty Adviser, Pi Sigma Alpha [Political Science Honors Society] (2003-05)

American Politics/Public Policy search committee, Chair (2005-06)

College of Arts and Letters
“Chair of Chairs” (2006-07)

Academic Policy and Planning Committee (elected/re-elected (2007 -- )

Program on International Security and Conflict Resolution, Board Member (2003-2010)

Public Policy Ph.D. Planning Committee, Chair (2005-07)

CAL Personnel Committee (2005-06; 2010-11)

Women-in-Politics Conference, participating organizer (March 2005).

Fred J. Hansen Summer Institute for World Peace, Organizing/Program Committees (2007-08)

University
University Senate (elected/re-elected representative) (2004 - 2010)

Senate Committee on Committees (2008 - 2010)

Intercollegiate Athletics Authority (Senate representative)  (2005 - 2010)

Chair, Student-Athlete Welfare and Academic Success Committee (2006-08)

SDSU Representative, Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (2006-07)

NCAA Athletics Certification Self-Study Steering Committee, Chair of Academic Standards
working group (2005-06)

Fulbright Student Awards, campus interview committee (2004-09)

Phi Beta Kappa, applicant evaluation committee (2004-05)

TULANE UNIVESITY (selected)

Tulane University Senate, Senator At-Large (1997-98).

"Tulane 2000" University Five-Year Plan, President's Executive Committee and Chair of
Subcommittee on Intercollegiate Athletics (1995-96)

University Senate Committee on Athletics (1992-98); Chair (1994-98)

NCAA Athletics Certification, Self-Study Committee (1993-95)

University Senate Committee on Libraries (2000-03)

Tulane College Honor Board (1991-93, 1995 -97)

Faculty Adviser, Pi Sigma Alpha [Political Science Honor Society] (1988-93, 1996-97, 1999-01)
(winner of Best Chapter Award, 1999-2000)

Murphy Institute of Political Economy

Newcomb College Fellow

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION SERVICE

College Board, U.S. Government and Politics AP Exam National Colloquium (2009).

Chair, Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award Committee, American Political Science Association, Section on Politics and History (2009).
 
Western Political Science Association, Program Committee. Section Chair for the Politics and History Section (2007; 2008; 2009; 2010).

Western Political Science Association, Committee on Chairpersons, Co-Chair (2006-07)

Charles Redd Award Committee, Western Political Science Association, for the best paper on the American West (2008).

Editorial Board, Europolis (Romania)

Editorial Board, Studia Politica (Romania)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Fulbright Association of San Diego, Board Member (2006 -- )

District 7 Candidates Forum, Moderator (2008)

American Civil Liberties Union and League of Women Voters, San Diego Chapters, special committee to evaluate voting machine technology in the county (2004)

Youth and Government, California YMCA Bill Hearing Night (2005; 2006)

Orleans Parish School Board, Appointed Member of Audit Advisory Committee (1996-1999).

Certificate of Recognition from the Orleans Parish School Board, 1999.

Adviser, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Phillip Martin, Tribal Chief, evaluating an ongoing research project and book manuscript examining Choctaw economic and political development (1998)

Chair, Louisiana Division, United Stated Fencing Association (1997-99)

Representative, United Stated Fencing Association Congress (1998-99)

Commissioner, Louisiana Games, Fencing (1999-2001)

Media Appearances: National Public Radio; Pacifica News Service; local and regional newspapers; various local radio and television stations.

MANUSCRIPT REFEREE:

Addison Wesley Longman
Cambridge University Press
Congressional Quarterly Press
Cornell University Press
Harper/Collins
Houghton Mifflin
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Oxford University Press
Penn State University Press
Prentice Hall, College Division
Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown
State University of New York Press
W.W. Norton

American Political Science Review
American Journal of Political Science
Comparative Political Studies
Journal of Policy History
Journal of Politics
Journal of Public Policy
Policy Sciences
Policy Studies Journal
Policy Studies Review
Political Research Quarterly
Polity
Public Budgeting & Financial Management
Social Science Quarterly
Social Science Research
Southeastern Political Review
State and Local Government Review
Studies in American Political Development

GRANT PROPOSALS REFEREE:

National Science Foundation

International Research and Exchanges (IREX):   Social Science Curriculum Development.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.

Fulbright Commission (Romania)

Ratiu Foundation for Democracy – Romania (Research Awards, President of the Jury, 2007).