• Member, Search Committee for the Senior Vice President of the Rabb School at Brandeis University, 2014
  • Consultant, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, meeting on revising governance, London, February 20-21, 2014.
  • Incoming President, Boston Library Consortium, 2013-2014
  • Organizer, Workshop on Digital Humanities for Boston-area faculty, August 19-20, 2013, MIT.
  • Member, Boston Library Consortium, 2012-2013
  • Participant, Scholarly Communications Institute, for meetings of the leadership of Centernet (a network of digital humanities centers) and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2011-2013
  • Chair, IT Governance Committee for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Appointed by the Interim Provost, November 2011.
  • Chair, Committee to Re-design IT Governance for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Appointed by the interim Provost, June 2011.
  • Chair, NCSA Director Evaluation Committee. Appointed by the Vice-Chancellor for Research, October, 2010.
  • Member, Council of Deans Ad Hoc Committee on "Academic Structures that Facilitate Innovation.", University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Fall, 2010.
  • Chair, Stewarding Excellence Extension Review Committee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Spring, 2010
  • Local organizer, iConference 2010, Champaign, IL, February, 2010
  • Participant, NSF Workshop on the responsible conduct of research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, October 23, 2009.
  • Unit leader for GSLIS, Campus Charitable Fund Drive, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2009.
  • Panelist, NEH/NSF/JISC "Digging Into Data" grant competition. London, England, September, 2009.
  • Member, Planning Committee, HathiTrust Research Center, 2009-2011.
  • Chair, International Scientific Committee, Synergies: Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructure, 2008-present.
  • Chair, campus-wide E-Learning Committee, UIUC. 2007-present.
  • Coordinator, iSchools Caucus, 2008-2010
  • Chair, Conference Coordinating Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2008-present.
  • Member, Centernet Steering Committee, 2007-present.
  • Member and budget officer, University of Illinois three-campus collaboration with The HistoryMakers, 2007-present.
  • Chair, search committee for Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, UIUC. 2007.
  • Member, CIO's Information Technology Advisory Council, UIUC. 2007.
  • Chair, Provost's ad hoc review committee reporting on Campus Information Technologies and Educations Services (CITES), UIUC. 2005.
  • Chair, Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004-2005.
  • Chair, Steering Committee, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, 2004-2007.
  • Member, Board of Directors, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2004-2005.
  • Chair, Provost's five-year review committee reporting on the University Librarian, UIUC. 2004.
  • Member, external board, Text Analysis Portal for Research. 2003-present.
  • External evaluator, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education Search Engine project, 2003-2006.
  • Member, advisory board, Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University. 2003-2005
  • President, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2002-2004
  • Co-chair, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2001-2003
  • Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 1996-2004
  • Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Imprint at the University Press of Virginia. 2002-2004.
  • Member, 2004 Busa Award Selection Committee, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2001-2004.
  • Chair of the Board, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 2001-2003.
  • Chair, TEI Council, 2002-2003.
  • Organizer and Acting Director, Master's Degree in Digital Humanities 2000-2001.
  • Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1999-2002
  • Member, Board of Directors, Virginia Art of the Book Center, 2001-2003.
  • Member, University Libraries Committee, University of Virginia, 2000-2002
  • Member, University of Virginia Research Computing Task Force (Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, Business and Law sub-group), 2000-2001.
  • Member, Executive Board, University of Virginia Center for Digital Initiatives, 2001.
  • Chair, Transition Group, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, 1999-2000
  • Member, Council on Library and Information Resources international task force to consider the role of the artifact in library collections, 1999-2000
  • Member, Board of Directors, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 1999-2000
  • Member, Computer Science & Humanities Steering Committee, National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage, 2001
  • Chair, World-Wide Web Editorial Committee, Dept. of English, Univeristy of Virginia, 1997-2000
  • Chair, Technologies Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 1997-2000
  • Member, Publishing and Communications Advisory Board, Division of Continuing Education, University of Virginia, 1996-2003.
  • Member, Network-Based Information Services Committee, University of Virginia, 1995-2001.
  • Local Organizer and Co-Host, 1999 joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
  • Member, Search Committee for Director of Media Studies, University of Virginia, 1998-99
  • Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1998
  • Member, Subcommittee on Electronic Publication, Committee on the New Variorium Edition of Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, 1997
  • Member, Executive Council, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 1996-1997
  • Member, Committee on Information Technology for Research, University of Virginia, 1996
  • Member, Planning Committee, 1996 Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group for Documentation, Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Supervised and participated in the first major overhaul of the University of Virginia's World-Wide Web Home Page.
  • Member, Graduate Committee, Dept. of English, University of Virginia
  • Member, Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
  • Founder, IATH-MOO: A Virtual Conference Site
  • Founder, PMC-MOO: A Postmodern Community
  • Founder, NCSU Virtual Campus
  • Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Working Group on Technical Requirements, National Initiative for the Humanities and Arts Computing, Coalition for Networked Information/Getty Art History Information Program, co-sponsors
  • Member, Coalition for Networked Information, Task Force, Advertising on the internet
  • Chair, Computer Affairs Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU
  • Computing Coordinator, Dept. of English, NCSU
  • Member, CHASS Computing Committee, subcommittee on multi-media, NCSU
  • Member, University Library Committee, subcommittee on scholarly communication, NCSU
  • Member, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, NCSU (revised the major)
  • Organizer, Conference on the applications of the Standard Generalized Markup Language in publishing electronic journals, NCSU