As a member of several scholarly associations, I have actively participated by regular presentations at annual meetings, but also through service on diverse committees:
American Sociological Association (ASA)
American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Committee on Sections (elected member, 2005-08; chair 2007-08)
- Elected Chair (2016-17).
- Elected Chair (2004-05);
- Elected Council Member (1998-00);
- Chair, Book Award Committee (1997-98);
- Nominations Committee (1996-97);
- Membership Committee (1994-96);
- Elected Secretary-Treasurer (1993-94).
- Steering Committee;
- Nominations Committee;
- By-laws Drafting Committee.
- Chair, Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Book Award Committee (2006-07);
- Elected Council Member (2004-2007);
- Chair, James F. Short, Jr. Distinguished Article Award Committee (2003-04);
- Chair, Membership Committee (1999-00);
- Candidate for Section Chair (1997, 1999).
- Elected Chair (2016-17)
- Article Award Committee Member (ca. 2000)
- Clifford Geertz Article Award Committee (2008-09)
- Elected Chair, Social Problems Theory Division (2004-06);
- Member, C. Wright Mills Award Committee (2004-05).
- Chair, Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award Committee (2005-06).
- Program Committee (1999-2000; 2005-06);
- Membership Committee (1991-92);
- Co-editor (with Timothy Johnson) , Law & Society Review (2014-16)
- Member, Board of Trustees (2014-16);
- Member, Executive Committee (2014-16);
- Member, Editor Search Committee (2014)
- Author of “Race and Racism in Berlin” for LSA Conference Website
- Book Review Editor Search Committee (2003-04).
- Development Committee (2000-01);
- Publications Committee (1999-2000);
- Editor Search Committee for Law and Society Review (ca. 1998-99; 2014);
- World Congress of Criminology, Area Chair: Punishment and Society (2005).