Administration
Elon University
Coordinator, American Studies Program. 2010-2011.
University of Kansas
Undergraduate Director, American Studies Program, 2006-2008.
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, American Studies Program, University of Kansas, 2006-2008.
Professional Activities
National Service
Editorial Board, American Studies (Journal), 2012-present.
Editorial Board, Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2013-present.
Graduate Faculty, Purdue University, 2010-2013.
Reader, American Studies, 2008-2012.
Reader, African American Review, 2005-2008.
Volunteer, Compact for Faculty Diversity: Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. 2006-present
Commentator, “Watching the Detective: Race and Representation in Asian American and Latino Detective Fiction” Panel, American Studies Association, 2007.
Panel Organizer, “The Interracial Anthropopolis: Afro-Asian and Afro-Native Urban Encounters.” Association of Asian American Studies, 2007.
Panel Organizer, “Geishas, Gurus and Genocide: Afro-Asian/American Cultural Interaction in Film, Literature and Art.” Association of Asian American Studies, 2006.
Panel Organizer, “Fractures in the Racial Imagination: Ethnic Art as Transformative Space.” American Studies Association, 2005.
Chair and Commentator, “African Americans, Asian Americans, and Whiteness in the West” Panel, Western History Association Conference, 2004
Presider, “Writing the Dissertation” Panel, Compact for Faculty Diversity’s Tenth Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, 2003.
Commentator, “Race: An International Perspective” Panel, American Studies Association Conference, 2001.
University Service
Academic Diversity Fellow, 2010-2014.
Presidential Diversity Council, Elon University, 2010-2011.
Member, Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee, 2010-present.
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Law and Humanities, Elon University, 2008-present.
Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies, Elon University, 2009-present.
Member, Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Colloquium, University of Kansas, 2006-2008.
Co-director, American Cultures Seminar, University of Kansas, Spring 2008.
Co-coordinator, Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Colloquium, University of Kansas, 2006-2007.
Member, Aaron Douglass and the Harlem Renaissance Exhibit-Regional Committee, University of Kansas, 2005-2007.
Member, Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, University of Kansas, 2007
Member, CUSA Subcommittee on Advising, University of Kansas, 2007.
Member, Templeton-Blackburn Scholars Selection Committee, Ohio University, 2001-2005
Faculty Advisor, Black Graduate Council, Ohio University, 2002-2005
Member, University American Studies Steering Committee, Ohio University, 2003-2005
Faculty Advisor, Ethics Bowl Team, Sweet Briar College, 1999-2001
Campus Coordinator, Regional Planning Committee on VA Death Penalty Awareness Week, Sweet Briar College, 2000-2001.
Co-Curricular Advisor, Sweet Briar College, 2000-2001.
Departmental Service
Member, Literature Concentration, 2008-present.
Member, Special Projects, 2013-present.
Undergraduate Director, American Studies Program, University of Kansas, 2006-2008
Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee, American Studies Program, University of Kansas, 2006-2008
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, American Studies Program, University of Kansas 2005-2006
Member, Search Committee, African American Race and Gender, American Studies/Women Studies, University of Kansas, 2005
Member, Graduate Committee, Ohio University, 2002-2005
Member, Graduate Admissions Subcommittee, Ohio University, 2002-2005
Member, Search Committee, African American Literature-African American Studies, Ohio University, 2002
Member, Search Committee, African American Literature Visiting Professor-African American Studies, Ohio University, 2001
Member, Search Committee, Nineteenth Century American Literature-English Department, Ohio University, 2001
Member, Search Committee, Minority Dissertation Scholar-in-Residence-English Department, Ohio University, 2001
Member, Honors Committee, Sweet Briar College, 1999-2001
