I have served as Guest Editor for the only extant special edition of an academic journal on Polka Studies , Polish American Studies, as well as serving on the Editorial Board of the scholarly journals Ad Americam (Poland) and Polish American Studies (US). I have Chaired several international scholarly conferences, served on the Academic Excellence Committee of the Board of my alma mater, Resurrection College Preparatory High School for Girls in Chicago, Illinois. I ‘ve served on the Board of the Chicago Audubon Society where I was Editor and Communications Chair. At my home institution of Columbia College Chicago, I was a Co-Founder and former Director of the Cultural Studies Program and served multiple terms as Humanities Coordinator . I served the college actively on Curriculum Committees, Search Committees, the Academic Affairs Committee and the Faculty Senate. 

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Professional Service

Academic Excellence Committee of the Board, Resurrection College Preparatory High School, Chicago, 2014- 2019.

Selection Committee, Polish Women’s Hall of Fame of the PIAST Institute, 2017 – 2019. 

Executive Council, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), 2001 – 2017.

Chair, Working Group on Pedagogy, Cultural Studies Association (CSA US), 2013-14.

National Conference Chair, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), 2009 – 2011.

National Vice President, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), 2007 – 2009.

Director of Online Communications, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), 2003 – 2007.

Research Fellow, Piast Institute, A National Institute of Polish & Polish American Affairs, Detroit, MI. 2004 – 2008.

Board of Directors, Piast Institute, A National Institute of Polish & Polish American Affairs, Detroit, MI. 2003 – 2008.

Board of Directors, Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2001 – 2012.

Research and Editorial Service

Doctoral and Masters Thesis Co-Director, Program in Applied Language and Cultural Studies, Universite Chouaib Doukkali (Morocco), 2015 – 2023.

International Advisory Board, Cultural Studies and Marxism Book Series, Rowman & Littlefield International Publishing, London, 2015 – 2023.

Member, Academic Excellence Committee of the Board, Resurrection College Preparatory High School, Chicago, IL, 2015 – 2019.

Editorial Board, Ad Americam: Journal of American Studies, 2012 – present.

Editorial Board, Polish American Studies, 2005 – present.

Associate Editor, Cultural Landscapes: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 2007 – 2014.

Editorial Reviewer, Bloomsbury (Journal) Publishing, London, 2014 – present.

Editorial Reviewer, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2012 – present.

Editorial Reviewer, Current Sociology, 2011- present.

Research Fellow, Piast Institute of Polish & Polish American Affairs, 2004 – present.

Director of Online Communications, Polish American Historical Association, 2003 – 2007.

Guest Editor, Special Journal Issue on Polka Studies, Polish American Studies, Autumn 2004.

Editorial Consultant, The Polish Americans by Peg Hall. Heinemann Publishing, 2003. 

Editorial reader for Hypatia, an international scholarly journal of philosophy, 1995 – 2003. 

Field Faculty Advisor, Norwich University Graduate Program (Women’s Studies), 2001.

Editorial reviewer for Reflections: An Anthology of African American Philosophy, Wadsworth Press, 2000. 

Conference and Symposia Leadership

Panel Organizer, “Crossing Digital Borders – Negotiating Cultural Displacement: International Students in the U.S. and Poland,” Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America [PIASA] Fifth World Congress of Polish Studies, Warsaw University, June 2014. (refereed)

Seminar Participant, “Pedagogical Practices in Cultural Studies: Approaches to Teaching Concepts, Theories, and Methodologies,” Cultural Studies Association (CSA US), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2014.

Panel Organizer, “Cultural Studies Pedagogy: Pedagogy in Neo-Liberal Context,” Cultural Studies Association (CSA US), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2014.

Panel Organizer, “Cultural Studies Pedagogy: Emerging Scholars Thinking Hegemony and Pedagogy” Cultural Studies Association (CSA US), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2014.

National Conference Host Committee, Cultural Studies Association (CSA US), Chicago, May 2013.

Panel Chair, “Machinic Interventions: AI, Social Robotics, and Algorithmic Culture,” Cultural Studies Association (CSA US) Conference, Chicago, May 2013.

Panel Chair, “(Re)Thinking the PostHuman,” Cultural Studies Association (CSA US) Conference, Chicago, May 2013.

National Conference Host Committee, Cultural Studies Association (CSA US), Chicago, March 2011.

Panel Chair, “Mashups, Remixes, and Authorship: Making and Meaning,” Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference, March, 2011.

National Conference Chair, Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), San Diego, CA, 2010.

National Conference Chair, Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), New York, NY, January 2009.

Area Chair, “Festivals and Food Studies,” (MPCA/ACA) Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 2002 – 2012.

Panel Chair, “Cultural Studies and Education,” (PCA/ACA) Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 2009.

Panel Chair, “Polish American Women,” Polish American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 2009.

Panel Organizer, “Documentary Film Premiere: Dance Hall Days of Detroit Polonia.” Polish American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January, 2008.

Panel Organizer & Chair, “Crafting Ethnicity: Polish American Mixed Media Artists,” Polish American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.

Panel Chair, “Polonian Presentation of Self,” Polish American Historical Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, January 2005.

Panel Organizer, “Reading Polka Literature: Music, Voice and Polish American Identity,” Polish American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January, 2004.

Panel Organizer, “Polka Studies,” Polish American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January, 2004.

Panel Organizer, “The Aesthetics of Ethnic Practice,” School of Visual Arts Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York NY, October 2003.

Panel Organizer, “Virtual Ethnicity: The Case of Polonia Online,” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 2003.

Panel Chair, “Polonia Online: Ethnicity & Cyberspace,” Polish American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January, 2003.

Panel Chair, “Feast & Festival: Negotiating Ethnicity & Identity through Religious Celebration,” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October, 2002.

Panel Organizer & Chair, “Cultural Expressions of Polish Diaspora,” at Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America Annual Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June, 2000.

Panel Organizer, “Polka Theory: Ethnic Urban American Music at the Millennium,” at (ASA) American Studies Association, Detroit, October, 2000.

Panel Organizer & Chair, “Pedagogies of Virtual Narrative & Display,” at The School of Visual Arts Annual Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York, October, 2000.

Panel Organizer & Chair, “Rethinking Polonia: Cultural Expressions of Polish Diaspora,” at Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America Annual Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June, 2000.

Panel Organizer, “Polka! Polka! Polka! Ethnic Music at the Millennium,” at Polish American Historical Association Conference, Chicago, January 2000.

“Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism,” Skola Letnia Kultury I Jezyka Polskiego, Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Krakow, Poland, (Jagiellonian University Summer School of Polish Language and Culture), Krakow, Poland, July-August, 1997.

Institutional Service

Faculty Senate (2021 – 2025)

Academic Affairs Committee (2021-2025)

Humanities Coordinator (2000-2007; 2015 – 2023)

Departmental Curriculum Committee (2015 -2023)

Director of Cultural Studies (2008-2011)

Co-Founder, Cultural Studies Program

Departmental Search Committees(2000, 2004, 2012)

Undergraduate Thesis Supervision (2007 – 20)

Director of Women & Gender Studies (2001- 2005)

Collegewide Teaching & Learning Committee (1998-2000; 2019-2021)

Faculty Online Pedagogy Team (2019-2021)