Academic Service

University and School Service

Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship Committee, Selection Committee (Georgetown University), 2006-2007.

Dissertation Research Travel Award Committee, Selection Committee (Georgetown University), 2006-2007.

Graduate Student Conference Travel Award Committee, Selection Committee (Georgetown University), 2006-2007.

Center for Language Education Development (CLED), Advisory Board Member (Georgetown University), September, 2004-present.

University MBNA Career Center Advisory Council, Member (Georgetown University), September, 2002-May, 2003.

Faculty Judge, Graduate Student Research Exposition (Georgetown University), Spring 2003.

Professional School Advisory Committee for Library Services, Member (New York University), 2000-2002.

School-wide Committee for Selection of Founders Fellows, Member (New York University), 2001-2002.

School-wide Committee on Courses and Programs, Member (New York University), 2000.

Departmental Service

Linguistics Department Merit Review Committee, Member: August, 2005-July, 2006, Chair: August, 2006-July, 2007.

Head, Applied Concentration, Spring 2007.

Sociolinguistics Search Committee, Member: August, 2005-December, 2006.

Director of Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program, Department of Linguistics (Georgetown University), September, 2002-August, 2005.

Co-Principal Investigator of Department of Education (Title III) Scholarship Grant ($1,300,000 over five years) (Georgetown University), September, 2002-present.

Linguistics Laboratory Committee (Georgetown University), Member: September, 2002-present, Chair: September, 2003-December, 2004.

Faculty Development and Promotion Committee, Elected Member (New York University), 2001-2003.

Multilingual Multicultural Studies Faculty Search Committee, Member (New York University), 2000-2002.

Committee for Student Academic Life, Member (New York University), 1999-2001.

Department Technology Committee, Member (New York University), 1997-1998.

National and International Professional Activities

Grant Reviewing

2003, 2007    Research Foundation of The City University of New York
2005, 2006    National Institute for Education (Singapore)
2003, 2004    National Science Foundation
2004            Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (Singapore)
2004            Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Council of Canada
2003            Fulbright Educational Partnerships Program, U.S. State Department

Reviewing and Editing for Professional Journals

2002-present

Language Policy (Co-Editor, 2007 to present: Associate Editor for Reviews, 2002-2006).
Anthropology and Education Quarterly (Ad hoc).
Applied Linguistics (Ad hoc).
Applied Psycholinguistics (Ad hoc).
Heritage Language Journal (Ad hoc).
International Journal for the Practice and Theory of New Writing (Ad hoc).
International Journal of the Sociology of Language (Guest Editor).
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (Ad hoc).
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Ad hoc).
Language in Society (Ad hoc).
National Head Start Association Dialog (Ad hoc).
Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference of Bilingualism (Ad hoc).
TESOL Quarterly (Ad hoc).
John Benjamins (Ad hoc).

1999-2002

Language and Education (Reviews Editor).

Reviewing and for Professional Book Series

Greenwood Publishing Group (Ad hoc).
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Ad hoc).
Multilingual Matters Publishers (Ad hoc).
Springer Reference (Ad hoc).
Walter de Gruyter (Ad hoc).

Review Activities for Conferences

2006            Georgetown University Roundtable (Co-organizer).
2005-2006   Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, Scientific Committee (Member).
2003            International Conference on Minority Languages in Kiruna, Sweden (Member of Committee).
2003            International Symposium on Bilingualism (Ad hoc).
2003            Georgetown University Roundtable (Ad hoc).
2000            American Association of Applied Linguistics (Strand Coordinator, Ad hoc, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007).

Tenure Reviews

2006 University of Houston (invited and completed)
2003 Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (invited and completed)

Editorial Board Memberships

2000-present International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Language and Education

Service to Professional Organizations

American Association of Applied Linguistics delegate to the Joint National Committee for Languages