Internal Service

• SELECTED. 01/2023 - 01/2023. University service.
• Senate Faculty Reviews Standards Committee. Interim Chair, 10/2019 - 06/2021. University service.
• Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Student Input in Retention, Promotion, & Tenure. Co-Chair, 08/2019 - 06/2020. University service.
• Film & Media Arts Department RPT Committee. Chair, 07/2018 - 07/2019. Department service.
• ad hoc Career-line, Adjunct, Visiting Faculty Appointment, Reappointment, Review, and Promotion Policy Revision Committee. ex officio, 02/2018 - 06/2018. College service.
• Senate ad hoc Committee on Centers, Institutes, and Bureaus 2. Member, 11/2017 - 06/2018. University service.
• Taft-Nicholson Center Artists' Colony Advisory Board. Member, 10/2017 - 06/2018. University service.
• Gender Studies Program RPT Committee. Chair, 08/2017 - 07/2019. Department service.
• General Education Curriculum Committee. Member, 08/2017 - 06/2018. University service.
• Celebrate U Task Force. Member, 09/2016 - 05/2017. University service.
• Ethnic Studies/Gender Studies School Planning Committee. Member, 01/2016 - 05/2016. College service.
• Continuing Education and Community Engagement (CECE) Taskforce. Member, 10/2015 - 05/2016. University service.
• School of Music Director Search Committee. Chair, 11/2014 - 05/2015. College service.
• CFA Research Dean. Support and encourage grant-getting, Run CFA External Funding Workshop Series, Liaison with OSP and other campus research deans. 07/01/2014 - 06/30/2016. College service.
• College Council. Vice Chair, 07/2013 - 06/2018. College service.
• Curriculum Policy Review Board. Member, 07/2013 - 06/2018. University service.
• Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs (CFA). [Promoted to "Senior" Associate Dean 07/01/2016]. 07/01/2013 - 06/2018. College service.
• Member, Editorial Board, StUdio (College of Fine Arts Magazine). 10/2012 - 05/2014. College service.

Professional Service

• PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. SELECTED. 01/2023 - 01/2023
• Quarterly Horse: A Journal of [Brief] American Studies. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2016 - present
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Role: Chair. Kovács Book Award Committee. 10/2015 - 03/2016
• Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism. Role: Member. Governing Board. 06/2015 - 01/2022
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Role: Member. Program Committee. 10/2014 - 12/2014
• Celebrity Studies. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2014 - 05/2023
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Role: Coordinator. Women's Caucus, Mentorship Program. 03/2013 - 03/2014
• Cinema Journal. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2013 - 12/2017
• Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Role: Co-Chair. Women's Caucus. 03/2011 - 03/2013
• Critical Studies in Media Communication. Associate Editor. 01/2010 - 12/2016
• Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2009 - 12/2010
• Subjectivity. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2007 - 12/2012
• Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Associate Editor. 01/2005 - 12/2019
• National Communication Association. Role: Chair, Immediate Past Chair, Vice Chair. Critical and Cultural Studies Division. 11/2004 - 11/2007
• National Communication Association. Role: Program Planner. Critical and Cultural Studies Division. 11/2004 - 11/2005
• National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division. Role: Chair. Awards Committee. 11/2003 - 11/2004
• Society for Cinema Studies. Role: Member. Dissertation Award Committee. 10/2002 - 03/2003
• Society for Cinema Studies. Role: Member. Program Committee. 10/2002 - 12/2002
• Journal of Sports and Social Issues. Associate Editor. 01/2002 - present
• Society for Cinema Studies Television Studies Interest Group. Role: Member. Steering Committee. 03/2000 - 03/2003
• Women's Studies in Communication. Associate Editor. 01/2000 - 12/2019
• Critical Studies in Media Communication. Associate Editor. 01/2000 - 12/2004
• Western Journal of Communication. Associate Editor. 01/1996 - 12/1999

Outreach

• Guest Instructor, "Gender Studies." Salt Lake Center for Science Education 11th graders. 09/23/2014 - 09/23/2014
• Participant, "Women in Film" panel. Fantasycon, Salt Lake City, UT. 07/05/2014 - 07/05/2014

Community Partnership

• Founding Member of Board of Directors, Women's Institute for Independent Social Enquiry (WiiSE) . 01/2018 - present

Honors & Awards

• Honorary Title of University Professor (2018-2020). University of Utah, 02/2018
• Bonnie Ritter Book Award. "Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture". National Communication Association, Feminist and Women's Studies Division, 11/2015
• Faculty Fellow. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 08/2008
• Outstanding Published Article Award. Vande Berg, Leah R., and Sarah Projansky. 2003. "Hoop Games: Narrativizing Identity in Televised Coverage of U.S. Professional Women's and Men's Basketball." In Case Studies in Sports Communication. Ed. Robert S. Brown and Daniel J. O'Rourke. Westport, CT: Greenwood. Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, 01/2004
• Top Book Award. "Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture," 2001, NYU Press. National Communication Association, Critical/Cultural Studies Division, 11/2002
• Emily Toth Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture. "Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture," 2001, NYU Press. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Women's Caucus, 01/2002

Affiliations

• Utah Women in Film (UT Women in Film), Member, 01/2014 - present
• International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD), Member, 07/2013 - 06/2018
• American Studies Association (ASA), Member, 01/2003 - present
• National Communication Association (NCA), Member, 01/1997 - present
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Member, Women's Caucus Mentorship Coordinator, 01/1988 - present

In the Media

• SELECTED. 01/2023.
• Chicago Tribune Interview. Nina Metz, "Column: How Teen Comedies Like 'Superbad' Normalize Sexual Assault.". 10/03/2018.
• Access Utah, UPR. 1 hour interview regarding media representations of sexual violence. 05/24/2018.
• Lovrekovićm Mateja. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Libri & Liberi: Journal of Research on Children's Literature and Culture (Croatia) 5.1: 246-248. 01/2016.
• Lipkin, Elline. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Women's Review of Books. 03/2015.
• Fairclough-Isaacs, Kristy. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Celebrity Studies 6.4: 618-619. 01/2015.
• Gwynne, Joel. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Women's Studies in Communication 38.1: 122-124. 01/2015.
• Weber, BR. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Gender and Society: 1-3. 01/2015.
• Shin, Gloria. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Women's Studies 44: 580-584. 01/2015.
• Lewis, Melinda. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Journal of Popular Film and Television 43.2: 94. 01/2015.
• Horrex, Emma. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Journal of Gender Studies 24.6: 714-715. 01/2015.
• Keller, Jessalynn. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Feminist Media Studies 15.1: 172-174. 12/20/2014.
• Kurtin, Kate S. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 91.3: 626-227. 08/14/2014.
• Curtis, Audrey. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. San Francisco Book Review. http://citybookreview.com/spectacular-girls-media-fascination-and-celebrity-culture/. 05/29/2014.
• Lacefield, Kristen. Review of Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture. Studies in American Culture 37.1: 179. 01/2014.