Professional Memberships, Service And Recent Activities


American Anthropological Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Caribbean Studies Association

Bulgarian Studies Association

Soyuz Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies

Society for the Anthropology of Europe,

East European Anthropology Group

Association of Women in Slavic Studies

Editorial Boards: Women’s Studies International Forum

Reviewer for: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Social Politics, Slavic Review, Women’s Studies International Forum, World Politics, East European Politics and Societies, Human Organization, Annals of Tourism Research, Aspasia, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, Duke University Press, and University of Michigan Press

Guest Editor for Fall 2006 issue of The Anthropology of East Europe Review
Appointed Program Chair for the 31st Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in Trinidad and Tobago (2005-2006)
Elected Programming Coordinator for the Soyuz Network of Postsocialist Cultural Studies (2006-2008)
Elected Member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Women in Slavic Studies