Service
Service to the University and the Profession
It has been important to me to seek balance and coherence in my research, teaching and service. For this reason, the service that I have conducted for the university, college and my profession also support my interest in public institutions and the public good. At the university level, I served as a Faculty Scholar to both the Rock Ethics Institute and the Multicultural Teaching Institute, in both cases through a partnership with the Schreyer’s Honors College. In the Honors College itself, I served as advisor, mentor and thesis advisor to Honors students and as a teacher of Honors classes. I also developed significant relationships with three other University departments outside my College resulting in affiliate appointments — Labor and Industrial Relations, Sociology, and the Science and Technology Studies program in the College of Liberal Arts. Finally I am a core member of the University Institute for Information Policy.
Because IST has been developing as a new and growing college since my appointment in 2003, I have been given the opportunity to participate in the development of graduate and undergraduate programs. At the college level, I have served on fourteen committees, contributing to virtually all major committees open to Assistant Professors. Of these fourteen committees, I am most proud of my service to the Graduate Advisory Council and the Graduate Recruitment Committee in that they are key committees addressing the needs, shape and future of our graduate program. In addition, I am also proud of my service as the organizer of the IDEAS program (Inter-Disciplinary Educational Application Scholarships for IST), which supports and facilitates undergraduate research in the College.
Within my professional community I have taken on three roles; editor, reviewer and organizer. As an editor I have been Guest Editor for the Social Science Computer Review (SSCORE), the Co- Editor and the Book Review Editor of the newsletter for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Science Knowledge and Technology. In my role as reviewer, I have reviewed for ten journals and two conferences. I have been on the planning/program committee for ten conferences and a session chair or session organizer for three of those. Perhaps most valuable to me have been my years serving as a
council member and webmaster to the Section for Communication and Information Technologies of the American Sociological Association.
