2022-2024. Atlanta Historical Society. I consulted for and served as an advisor for an exhibition titled “Telling Stories: Gone With The Wind and American Memory.” The exhibition opened in August 2024.
2020-2023. Co-organizer: Moving Histories: An International Symposium on Screened History, (with Dr Kimberly Nelson, Dr Mia Treacy, Prof. Robert Nelson). University of Windsor. (Funded by the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Ministry of Heritage, Digital Citizen Research Initiative.)
2019-2023. Collaborator: Live Interactive Documentary as Social Cinema: Expanding Transmedia models through immersive Performance Dissemination. (PI Dr. Kimberly Nelson). University of Windsor.
2017. Consultant for “The Face of Terror” research project, headed by Prof. Anne Gjelsvik, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
2017. American Academy in Berlin, evaluation of senior research fellow proposals
2016. Israel Science Foundation, evaluation of major research proposal.
2015. Consultant to the Graduate Program, Department of English, University of Zurich, at the invitation of Prof. Elisabeth Bronfen.
2014-present. Irish Research Council, evaluation of post-graduate and postdoctoral funding applications.
2012. Consultant for multi-year research project on Film, Movement and Emotion, Free University of Berlin. Invited by Prof. Hermann Kappelhoff.
2012. Leverhulme Foundation, evaluation of multi-year, cross national research project
2004. Nominated for President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
2003-2005. Planning Committee, London Conference, Society for Cinema and Media Studies. (I conceived the idea for the first overseas SCMS Conference, located the site, and helped with the planning for this conference, the first transcontinental conference in the Society’s sixty year history.)
2001- 2003. Appointed as Acting Past President, Society for Cinema Studies (The outgoing President of the Society declined to continue in his mandated role as Acting Past President. I was asked to step in and fulfill the duties that come with this position.)
2002. Chair, Search Committee for Editor of Cinema Journal (The official publication of the Society for Cinema Studies).
2002-2004. American Council of Learned Societies, Conference of Administrative Officers, Delegate for the Society for Cinema Studies.
1998-2001. Preliminary Judge, American Council of Learned Societies, Humanities Fellowship Competition.
1998-2001. Executive Council (elected), Society for Cinema Studies.