Professional Service

• University of Ghent. Role: Evaluator. Chair of External Research Review for the Department of Sociology. 03/01/2014 - 05/01/2014
• Political Economy of the World System Section, American Sociological Association. Role: Chair (elected). Oversee section affairs, including role and presence in the annual meeting of the ASA. 08/10/2013 - 08/10/2014
• Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. Role: Member. Awards Committee; Helen and Robert Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award. 09/22/2010 - 08/22/2011
• American Sociological Association. Role: Presider, Organizer. session organizer. 08/15/2010 - 08/15/2010
• Urban Studies (journal). Role: North American Editor: Oversee evaluation, review, and final dispensation of 100 article manuscripts per year. North American Editor. 05/01/2005 - 12/31/2016

Internal Service

• Graduate Committee. Member, 08/2013 - 08/2014. Department service.
• RPT Policy Committee. Chair, 08/2013 - 08/2014. Department service.
• Research Award Committee. Member, 08/2013 - 05/2014. College service.
• Interim Chair. Is this "service"? 07/01/2011 - present. Department service.
• Revising University Policy. Committee Chair, 09/17/2009 - 09/28/2010. University service.

Community Partnership

• Board of Directors, Utahans Against Hunger. 09/17/2010 - present

Honors & Awards

• Visiting Research Professor. Department of Geography, University of Ghent, 11/01/2013
• Elected Section Chair. Political Economy of the World-System Section, American Sociological Association, 08/10/2013
• Keynote lecture, "Global Cities with Chinese Characteristics". School of Public Policy, Sun Yat-sen University, 12/17/2011
• Guest Professor. China Normal University, Cultural Studies Faculty, 06/01/2011
• Delivered 11th Annual Lecture of Globalization and World City Network, Loughborough University, Loughborough, England. Globalization and World City Network (GaWC), 04/20/2009
• Visiting research fellow. Spring 2009. Department of Geography, Universiteit Gent, 2009
• Urban Studies Fellow, Fall, 2008-9, Department of Geographic and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow (Scotland). Urban Studies Fellow, 07/01/2008

Affiliations

• Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Member, 02/01/2016 - present
• International Sociological Association (ISA), member, 08/1992 - present
• American Sociological Association (ASA), Member, 08/1976 - present