Professional Service

• Culture, Theory and Critique. Role: Editor. I have been working as co-editor on a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique that will be published in Spring 2019. This issue emerged out of my hosting the Frontiers of New Media Symposium "Affect, Activism, & New Media". 01/05/2018 - 01/08/2019
• Dept of Communication, Univ of Utah. Role: organizer and host. I organized the 2017 Frontiers of New Media Symposium with the theme “Activism, Affect, and New Media: Theoretical Provocations.” With the help of Joshua Barnett I raised funds and hosted speakers in a group house as well as all the other routine organizing tasks. For the Frontiers of New Media, we are now circulating a proposal for a special issue of a journal to publish the papers. 04/2017 - 12/2017
• Western Journal of Communication. Editorial Board. 01/2015 - 02/10/2019
• Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Editorial Board. 01/2014 - 02/10/2019
• Environmental Communication. Editorial Board. 06/2008 - present
• Quarterly Journal of Speech. Editorial Board. 04/2008 - 01/2011
• Critical Studies in Media Communication. Editorial Board. 01/2005 - 02/08/2015
• Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Editorial Board. 06/2004 - 10/2010

Internal Service

• RPT Committee. member, 09/01/2020 - present. College service. member, 09/2020 - present. College service.
• RPT Committee. member, 09/01/2020 - present. College service.
• College of Humanities representative to the Global Change and Sustainability Center Executive Committee. 08/2017 - present. University service.
• College of Humanities representative to the Global Change and Sustainability Center Executive Committee. 08/2017 - present. University service. member, 08/2017 - 01/2022. University service.
• I chaired the search committee that hired Dr. Chris Ingraham. 08/2017 - 12/2017. Department service.
• College of Humanities RPT Advisory Committee. member, 10/2016 - 06/2018. College service.
• Chair of the Diversity Committee. 08/2016 - 07/02/2018. Department service.
• Chair, Media and Political Communication Search Committee. Chair, 08/2012 - present. Department service.
• Environmental Humanities Admission Committee. Member, 01/2012 - present. College service.
• Search Committee for an Environmental Studies professor. Member, 01/2012 - 04/2012. University service.
• College Career Development Committee. member, 09/2011 - present. College service.
• Faculty Senate. Member, 08/2011 - present. University service.
• Search Committee for an Environmental Studies professor. member, 04/2011 - present. University service.
• Study Abroad program, Beijing, CHina. 01/2010 - present. University service.
• International Studies Board. Member, 10/2009 - present. University service.

Outreach

• Recruiting graduate students. 11/2013 - present
• Recruiting graduate students. 03/2011 - present

Honors & Awards

• It is a Fellowship that provides space and time to work on a book project--Activism on the Wild Public Screens of China. Tanner Center Fellow, 2018-2019, Univ of Utah, 11/2017
• Faculty Fellowship, Univ. of Utah, 2013-2014. Univ of Utah, 08/2013
• “Imaging New Alternatives” Waterhouse Institute Grant, Villanova Univ (With Betsy Brunner) $10,000. Villanova University Waterhouse Institute, 05/2013
• Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF) grant awarded for “Imaging the Effects of Air Pollution: A Collaborative Project Between Salt Lake City and Beijing.” (With Betsy Brunner.) $8,915. Univ of Utah, 04/2013
• Environmental Humanities Research Professorship, Univ. of Utah, 2013-2014. University of Utah, 01/2013
• “The Wild Public Screens of China: Environmental Activism, Social Media, and the Emerging Civil Society of China,” U of Utah College of Humanities 2013 ($6,780) Great Ideas Grant. University of Utah , 11/2012
• Environmental Humanities Research Professorship, Univ. of Utah, 2013-2014. Univ of Utah, 10/2012

In the Media

• Interview with BBC News “Rainbow Warrior and the launch of direct green action” . 08/16/2011.
• "Lowering the Doom" by John Allemang Toronto Globe and Mail http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/images/files/Globe_and_Mail__Lowering_the_doom.pdf. 12/04/2009.