Service to International & National Organizations

President of the World History Association, 1996-98; Vice-President, 1994-96; World History Association Executive Council, 1991-2000; Member of 1992 International Program Committee; Editorial Board of Journal of World History, 1989-present; Review Board-Faculty Development Panel [NEH Grant], 1999-present; Search Committee for Executive Director, 2002
Organized panel for World History Association International Conference, "The Gendered Rhetoric of Empire in Twentieth Century Asia," Vancouver, BC, June, 1999 [Chair and Discussant]
Organized panels for American Historical Association annual meetings in cooperation with the World History Association and the Coordinating Committee of Women in the Historical Profession: "Restoring Women to History," Chicago IL, 2000; "Foreigners in Our Midst: Comparative Case Studies in Immigration and Assimilation," [Commentator] Washington DC, 1999; "European Colonialisms in Comparative Perspective: Gender, Rhetoric and National Culture in British, French, and Dutch Empires," [Commentator] and "Africa in Europe: Medieval and Renaissance Images," Seattle WA, 1998 [Commentator]; "Women's Rights and Human Rights: Some International Perspectives," New York NY, 1997; "Gendering the Survey," Atlanta GA, 1995; "Gender and World History: From the Specific to the General," San Francisco CA, 1994

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Nominating Committee, 1997-2000; Book Prize Committee, 1987-present; Program Committee, 1999; Endowment Campaign Executive Committee, 2000-present
Organized panels for the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: "Rewriting the Narrative: European History from Women's Perspective" [three sets of collaborators discussed their books], Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, June 1987; "The United Nations Decade for Women: Success or Failure?" [participants from India, United Kingdom, and the United States], Smith College, Northampton MA, June 1984; "The Subordinate Role: Why Have Some Women Accepted It and Others Rejected It?" [participants from Anthropology, History, Literature, and Psychology], Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, June 1981
Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, Member of Executive Committee 1988-91 and co-chair 1989-91 [one of 130 faculty seminars administered by Columbia University: responsible for program of 8 meetings and speakers each year, finances, and 10-year report of activities], New York NY

American Historical Association 1990 Program Committee for the Annual Meeting; James Harvey Robinson Prize Committee, 1982-84; Committee of Women Historians, 1980-82
Organized panels for American Historical Association annual meeting in cooperation with the AHA-OAH [Organization of American Historians] History Teaching Alliance: "When Worlds Collide: Translating Quincentenary Scholarship into Effective Teaching," Chicago IL, 1991; "Nationalism and History Education" [participants from Canada, Mexico, and the United States; papers and comments published in The History Teacher 12 (Nov. 1978)], Dallas TX, December 1977
Organized a series of panels for the American Historical Association annual meetings with the AHA-OAH History Teaching Alliance, the AHA Teaching Division, and the Society for History Education entitled "A Dialogue Between Equals": "Evaluating Teaching," New York NY, December 1990; "Teaching Historians to Teach," San Francisco CA, December 1989 [See Carl N. Degler, "Is Research the Whole Enchilada?" AHA Perspectives (Nov. 1991): 18-19]; "What Is Good History Teaching?" Washington DC, December 1987

Organized panel for 10th International Congress of the Enlightenment, "From the Margin to the Center: Representing Newton in 18th Century France," Dublin, Ireland, 1999
Ohio Academy of History, Book Prize Committee, 1998-99
American Society for 18th Century Studies, Trustee of Women's Caucus, 1997-present: Clifford Biography Prize Committee, 2005-2006; Annibel Jenkins Prize Committee, 2004-6; Du Châtelet Prize Committee, 2002-present
Organized roundtable for ASECS Conference, “The Marquise Du Châtelet: Legends and Legacies,” Montreal, Canada, 2006
Society for History Education, National Advisory Board, 1996-present
Reader for NEH Summer Institute and Seminar Grants, 1996
Member of the Board, CRADLE [Center for Research and Law Related Education], 1988-1990
Organized a roundtable discussion for the Latin American Studies Association national meeting: "New Approaches to the Introductory Course," Boston MA, October 1986