Selected Professional Service

Conference organizer, “Political Transformations in Pakistan,” sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C., March 28, 2008, and AIPS-sponsored Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, April 5, 2008

External Examiner for doctoral dissertations at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, and at Punjab University, Lahore, 2006-08

Member, Search Committee for an Associate Professor in Urdu at the University of Oslo, Fall 2007

Nominated Member, Research Advisory Board, National Commission on the Status of Women, Government of Pakistan, February 2007-present

Treasurer (elected), American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 2006-09

Chair (elected), South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2004-2006 (elected member of SAC, 2003-06)

Member, Executive Committee, Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP), 1988 – present

Member, Editorial Board, Citizenship Studies, 1996 - present; Globalizations, 2003 – present 

Member, Kumarian Press Advisory Committee, 2001-04, 2004-07

Advisory Editor, [The Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (John Esposito, senior editor) Oxford University Press, expected publication date: 2008

Consultant, South Asia at Fifty project, 2002-2003

Member, Board of Editors, Project South Asia (web-based digital library on South Asia; at: http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia/index.html

Current University of Oregon

Faculty Affiliate, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies [since 1989] and Center for the Study of Women and Society [since 1988]

Participating Faculty, Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies [since 1988], Asian Studies Program [since 1990], and PPPM [Planning, Public Policy and Management; since 2004]

Founding Faculty Member, IPRI (Innovative Policy Research Institute) [since 2004]

Advisory Committee Member, Oregon Humanities Center, 2007-08

Courtesy Appointment, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis [since 1998]

Member (elected), Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, 2003-05, 2006-08

Chair (elected), Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, 2007-08

Member, Off-Campus Scholarships and Grants Committee, 1990 - 1994, 1997 - 2002, 2003-present

Representative from the University of Oregon to the Oregon Middle Eastern Studies Consortium (OMESC), 1997-present

Institutional Trustee representing the University of Oregon at the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), 1995 - present.

This page updated April 17, 2008