Service at North Central College
- Chair, Faculty Development and Recognition Committee, 2022-2024
- Ex-officio roles: Governance Steering Committee, Board of Trustees Liaison Committee, Academic Advisory Council
- Acting chair (sabbatical replacement), Spring 2025
- Undergraduate Academic Standing Committee, 2021-2024
- Academic Programs Assessment Committee, 2018-2020
- Assessment Coordinator for Shimer Great Books School
Service at Shimer College
Associate Dean, 2015-17
- Coordinating academic assessment program
- Coordinating curricular reorganization (semester to trimester)
- Scheduling and setting agenda for faculty and other meetings
- Assisting in course planning and development of academic policy
Other major initiatives
- Spearheaded revision of interdisciplinary Humanities capstone course
- Revamped interdisciplinary Senior Capstone sequence
- Designed and implemented two-year pathway program for transfer students
Fellow of the PhD Center, Chicago Theological Seminary, 2011-
- Directed PhD-level tutorials
- Administered comprehensive exams for doctoral candidates
- Served on dissertation committees
- Referee work for publishers (including University of Chicago Press, Fordham University Press, Stanford University Press, and Columbia University Press) and journals (including Critical Research in Religion, Theory and Event, Political Theology, and Science Fiction Film and Television).
Service on editorial/advisory boards
- “Provocations” book series, University of Nebraska Press
- Continental Theory and Thought journal, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
Service to the American Academy of Religion
- Co-Chair of the Theology and Continental Philosophy Group, 2016-2020
- Member of the Steering Committee for the Bible, Theology, and Postmodernism Group, 2010-2013
- Student Liaison, 2006-2008
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