I serve on the Dean's Research Council for the College of Arts and Sciences and was 2010 chair of the Campbell Prize committee. I am the clerk/newsletter editor for the law and policy division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and frequently review book manuscripts and papers for journals and conferences affiliated with AEJMC and the International Communication Association. I am Webmaster for the journalism and communication department. I was one of ten recipients of a grant from the Liberty Tree Initiative and successfully put on "Lehigh Celebrates the First!" -- a semester-long celebration of free speech rights held in the fall of 2009.

Invited presentations

"The Google Settlement: Implications for Libraries, Authors, and the Public." Sponsored by Lehigh Friends of the Library and the Department of Journalism and Communication, Bethlehem, Pa., March 2010.

"Media Law for Bloggers." Presented to COM 402 Electronic Journalism class, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pa., February 2010.

"From Shrinkwrap to Gagwrap: Licensing and Fair Use Online." Presented at the annual conference of COMPARCH (Federated Events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture), East Stroudsburg, Pa., June 2009.

"Let's Reclaim the Commons: Public Domain and Intellectual Property on the Electronic High Seas."   Panelist at a session sponsored by the Law division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at their annual convention, San Francisco, Calif., August 2006

"The First Amendment's Penumbral Right: Freedom of Association" and "Anti-Discrimination Laws and Freedom of Association," presented as part of the First Amendment Institute, an annual program of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Austin, Texas, September 2005