Professional Service

Boards

• The American University of Iraq Foundation | Vice President | 2015-2024
• The American University of Sicily | Senior Advisor | 2020-2021

Selection Committees

• Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) | Higher Education Special Interest Group | Book Award | 2023-2024
• Institute of International Education (IIE) | Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship (Fulbright) | 2019-2024
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) | Iraq University Linkages Program | 2013

Association Memberships

• The Public Diplomacy Council of America | 2019-2024
• Network for Continuous Change & Innovation | 2021-2023
• Chicago Council on Global Affairs | 2021-2022

Peer Review

• The National Science Foundation | 2024
• Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning | 2022
• European Yearbook of Human Rights | 2022
• Higher Education Policy | 2021
• Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy | 2019
• Comparative and International Education Society | 2019
• United States Agency for International Development | 2019
• Current Issues in Comparative Education | 2014-2016 (senior editor)

Dissertation Committees

• Renee Bowling, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Higher Education and Student Affairs, College of Human Ecology, The Ohio State University | 2022-2024

University Service

At the Best Practices Forum at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani

• Investment Committee | 2022-2024
• Strategic Planning Committee | 2022
• Accreditation Committee | 2011-14
• Academic Planning Committee | 2011-13

Northwestern University

• First-Generation Low-Income Student Study Committee | 2022-2023
• Process Improvement Steering Committee | 2022