Professional Service
Organized 2-day Conference on ‘Women and Postwar Reconstruction’ to focus on democratization and human rights issues as they impact women in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq with speakers from the U.S. State Department, United Nations, Woodrow Wilson Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Operations, and international NGOs at Florida International University, March 2004.
Co-Organized Educational Forums for grant Project: “Diversity Within Islam and Life as a Muslim Woman: Dispelling Misconceptions Within a Multi-Ethnic Campus Community,” to bring together Muslim and non-Muslim students for presentations and directed intercultural dialogues at Florida International University, November 2002 and March 2003.
Organized University Women’s History Month activities that included Keynote Address by Ms. Robin Wright, Global Affairs Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, International Women’s Day Student Club Fair, and Open-mike Performances at Florida International University, March 2002.
University Committee on Access and Equity, Florida International University, Term 2001-2005.
President’s Advisory Committee on Women, Florida International University, February 2001 to Present.
Organized University Women’s History Month activities that included Keynote Address by Dr. Elaine Tyler May, “Women of Valor” Dance Performance, Video Series, International Women’s Day Student Club Fair, and Open-mike Performances at Florida International University, March 2001.
Organized on-site activities for “Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices, Women’s Solutions: National Teleconference on Women in Higher Education,” that included viewing of satellite broadcast from the national conference headquarters at the University of Minnesota, pre-conference publicity, leading post-broadcast discussions, and organizing luncheon, panel, and caucus sessions at Florida International University, March 2000.
Co-organized 2-day Symposium and presented work-in-progress, “Global Gender Politics: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation,” that included presentations by international relations and global geography scholars at Florida International University, March 1999.
Directed student research project and construction of poster display, “Living the Legacy: The 150th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention,” Alma College, Women’s History Month, 1998.
Produced promotional video to chronicle the Alma College Women’s History Project Women’s History Month Displays 1997-1998 for local cable access television, Alma, Michigan, 1998.
Organized Alma College Women’s History Project to create display “Alma College Women: Weaving the Tartan,” directing student and faculty archival research, oral histories, design and construction of public history display for Women’s History Month, 1997.
Reviewed Manuscripts for Westview Press and Michigan Historical Review, 1996-1997.
Organized 2-night Symposium, “Remembrance and Reassessment: 50 Years After the Atomic Bomb,” that included the showing of a film by Shohei Imamura, “Black Rain,” and presentations by historians, political scientists, and a world war II veteran at Alma College, November 1995.