​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)
  • Committee on Sections (elected member, 2005-08; chair 2007-08)
ASA-Human Rights Section
  • Elected Chair (2016-17).
ASA--Sociology of Law Section
  • 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).
ASA--Section-in-Formation on the Sociology of Law (1992-93)
  • Steering Committee;
  • Nominations Committee;
  • By-laws Drafting Committee.
ASA--Crime, Law, Deviance Section
  • 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).
ASA-Section for Human Rights
  • Elected Chair (2016-17)
ASA-Theory Section
  • Article Award Committee Member (ca. 2000)
ASA-Section on Culture
  • Clifford Geertz Article Award Committee (2008-09)
Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • Elected Chair, Social Problems Theory Division (2004-06);
  • Member, C. Wright Mills Award Committee (2004-05).
American Society of Criminology
  • Chair, Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award Committee (2005-06).
  • Program Committee (1999-2000; 2005-06);
  • Membership Committee (1991-92);
Law and Society Association
  • 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);
Other
  • World Congress of Criminology, Area Chair: Punishment and Society (2005).