Selected Professional Service
*Co-Chair, Interdiciplinary Studies Section (IDSS) Program Committee for the 2020 ISA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, March 2020
*Chair, Distinguished Speaker Selection Committee, Religion & International Relations Section, for the 2020 ISA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, March 2020; organized and will chair panel in honor of distinguished speaker
*Panel Organizer, "Transitioning towards a Human Rights Framework in Pakistan?" for the 48th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 17-20 October 2019, and for the 26th European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) conferemce in Vienna. Austria, July 29-August 1, 2020 (proposed)
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Zaheer Hussain Soomro entitled Women Rights in Pakistan 2000-2010: a Comparative Study of Sindh and Baluchistan Department of International Relations, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, March 2019
*Speaker/facilitator of panel, "Dangerous Women in Dangerous Times" Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), Karachi, 2 March 2019; due to the closure of Pakistani airspace at that time, I was the sole speaker in attendance at the panel, so also opened it up to the hundreds of attendees to speak to the issue
*Selector, Panel of experts for selection of candidates for Professor of Gender Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, January 2019
*Instructor, 2-week short course “South Asia: Development and Social Change” at Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, 7-21 January, 2018
*Selector, Panel of experts for selection of candidates for associate professor of Gender Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, December 2018
*Selector, Panel of experts for selection of candidate as Professor of Political Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore, September 2018 - present
*Chair, Best Paper Award Committee for the 2019 ISA Conference presented on an IDSS panel, 2018-2019
*Member, ISA Graduate Student Paper in Religion and International Relations Award Committee (for the 2018 ISA Conference) presented on an R&IR panel, 2018
*Member, Executive Council (elected), Interdisciplinary Studies Section (IDSS), International Studies Association, 2018-2020
*Member, at Large (elected), Religion & International Relations Section, International Studies Association, 2018-2020
*Member, CAORC First Round Selection committee fpr 2018-19 cycle, February 2018
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Badshah Muhammad, Department of Sociology, entitled Effectiveness of Community Participation in Sustainable Forestry in Malakand Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, University of Peshawar, January 2018
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Salma Mehr Fatima Malik in School of Politics & International Relations, entitled Culture of Gun Violence: Impact of the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons on Pakistan's Internal Security, Quaid-e-Azam University, January 2018
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Sher Muhammad, Department of Political Science, entitled Gender Quota and the Substantive Representation of Women in the Parliament of Pakistan, University of Sargodha, December 2017
*Member, Distinguished Book Award Committee, Religion & Society Section of the International Studies
Association, 2017
*Co-PI, UO-KIU University Partnership ($1 million), U.S. Department of State, through UO Center for Asia & Pacific Studies (CAPS), 2013-17
*Evaluation of Dossier of Dr. Ahmad Ijaz Malik, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, for Third Year Review and Contract Extension, October 2016
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Amir Ullah Khan, in School of Politics & International Relations, entitled Biosecurity Puzzles and Prospects: a Case Study of District Peshawar and District Bannu, Quaid-i-Azam University, October 2016
*Interview (of me) “Pakistan’s Social Realities lag behind Legal Advances for Women’s Rights” World Politics Review August 4, 2016
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Adam Saud, in School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, July 2016
*Discussant on panel “Networks of Power: Trust and Mistrust in Modern Pakistan” at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 23 October 2015 and at the Association for Asian Studies conference, Seattle, April 2016
*Member, External Review Team for the Ministry of Higher Education Commission, U.A.E., for the Re-accreditation of the Department of International Studies and Middle East Studies, American University in Dubai, 28 February – 3 March 2016
*Member, CAORC First Round Selection committee for 2015-16 cycle, February 2016.
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Imtiaz Ahmad Warraich in Pakistan Studies, Bahauddin
Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, November 2015
*External Reviewer, Global Studies Program, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, February 2015
*Content Consultant for ‘Newsmakers: Malala Yousafzai by Andrea Wang’ Red Line Editorial, 2014
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Shahid Habib on civil society in Pakistan, National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad, completed 2014
*Vice President (elected), American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), 2011-2013
*Discussant on panel “Women Negotiating Spaces in South Asian Law,” at the 42nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 18 2013
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation of Rabia Ali, University of New South Wales, Australia, completed 2013
*External Reader, doctoral dissertation committee for Joshua White, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, completed July 2012
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertations in Sociology, Defense & Strategic Studies, Pakistan Studies, South Asian Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, and Punjab University, Lahore, 2007-present (ongoing; three in 2011-12, one in 2013)
*External reviewer for three tenure and promotion cases (Ahmad Rashid Malik, Zafar Nawaz Jaspal, and Nazir Hussain), Quaid-i-Azam University, 2011-12 2011
*Principle Organizer for AIPS Women’s Studies Conference, held in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Gender Studies (Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad), Centre for Excellence in Women’s Studies (University of Karachi) and the National Commission on the Status of Women (Government of Pakistan), Islamabad, August 28-29, 2011
*Principle Organizer for AIPS conference “Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan” Islamabad, May 6-7, 2011
*Panel Organizer for a panel entitled Innovations on the Legal Front in Pakistan: New Laws that may Surprise You at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, 24 March 2013
*Panel Organizer and Discussant on a panel entitled “Judicial-Legal Activism and Social Transformation in South Asia” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, March 31-April 3, 2011
*Dissertation Workshops organizer on behalf of AIPS, in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Government of Pakistan, 2007-2012
        *Dissertation workshop leader for dissertations addressing gender concerns in Pakistan, November 1-3, 2010
        *Dissertation workshop leader for dissertations addressing gender concerns in Pakistan, January 28-30, 2013
*Treasurer (elected), American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), 2006-2009; 2009-2012 (stepped down October 2011 to become vice president)
*External Examiner, doctoral dissertation in the Gender Relations Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2009-2010
*Panel organizer “Legislating Muslim Women's Rights: Progress and Challenges” for the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Boston, 2009
*Member, Selection Committee for Middle East and South Asia, NSEP/Boren grants, March 2009
*Conference organizer, “Political Transformations in Pakistan,” sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C., March 28, 2008, and AIPS-sponsored Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, April 5, 2008
*Nominated Member, Research Advisory Board, National Commission on the Status of Women, Government of Pakistan, February 2007-present
*Chair (elected), South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2004-2006 [Member, AAS Board of Directors, 2004-06]
*Member, Selection panel for South Asia, Central Asia & Europe, U.S. Dept. of State Educational Partnership Programs, March 2004
*Member, International B Peer Review Panel (applications for Asia), Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., January 2004
*External Reviewer, International Studies Program, California State Univ., Long Beach, December 2003
*Member (elected), South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2003-2006
*Member, National Resource Center and FLAS review panel, U.S. Department of Education, April 2003
*Member, International B Peer Review Panel (applications for South Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe), Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., January 2003
*Member, Selection panel for South Asia, U.S. Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Institutional Linkage Programs, March 2002
*Member, Executive Committee, Berkeley Urdu Language Program (BULPIP), 1988 –2008

Editorial Work
*Member, Editorial Board, Citizenship Studies, 1996-2013; Globalizations, 2003-present; Pakistan Journal of Feminist Studies , 2010-present; Journal of Political & Security Studies (JPSS), Islamia College, Peshawar, 2017 – present; Journal of Development Policy, Research and Practice, SDPI, Islamabad, 2017-present
*Member, Advisory Board, Pakistan Journal of Sociology BZU, Multan, 2018-present; Pakistan Perspectives Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi, 2019-present
*Member, Permanent Reviewers Panel for Central Asia, Area Study Centre (Russia, China and Central Asia), University of Peshawar, 2018-present
*Member, Kumarian Press Advisory Committee, 2001-04, 2004-07, 2008-2013 [when purchased by Lynne Rienner Books]
*Advisory Editor, [The Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (John Esposito, senior editor) Oxford University Press, 2009
*Consultant, South Asia at Fifty project, 2002-2004
*Member, Board of Editors, Project South Asia (web-based digital library on South Asia; at: http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia/index.html
*Refereed journal article reviewer: Asian Survey, Contemporary South Asia, Feminist Studies, Gender and Society, Gender Studies, Human Organization, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Pacific Affairs, Social Problems (on-going), plus others on an occasional basis
*Manuscript Reviewer, various academic presses, ongoing (includes Indiana University Press, I.B. Taurus, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, Syracuse University Press, University of British Columbia Press, University of California Press, and Wadsworth)

Current (and recent) University of Oregon
*Co-PI, UO-KIU grant, "Promoting Women's Entrepeneurship in Gilgit-Baltistan through collaboration between KIU and the UO" for $155,000 from the U.S. Department of State, through the Center for Asia & Pacific Studies (CAPS), October 2018-March 2020
*Represented the University of Oregon at the Memorial Service for donor Judy Fosdick Oliphant, Lafayette, CA, October 29, 2016
*Participating Faculty, Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies [since 1988], Asian Studies Program [since 1990], and PPPM [Planning, Public Policy and Management; since 2004]
*Founding Faculty Member, IPRI (Innovative Policy Research Institute) [2004]
*Advisory Committee Member, Oregon Humanities Center, 2007-09
*Courtesy Appointment, Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis [since 1998]
*Co-PI, UO-KIU University Partnership ($1 million), through Center for Asia & Pacific Studies (CAPS), 2013-2017
*Chair, Committee on South Asian Studies (CSAS), under umbrella organization of Center for Asian and Pacific Studies [since 1991]
*Faculty Affiliate, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies [since 1989] and Center for the Study of Women and Society [since 1988]
*Faculty Representative (elected) to the U of O Foundation Board of Trustees, 1999-2002
*Member (elected), Dean’s Advisory Council, College of Arts & Sciences, 2000-2002; Committee Chairperson, Fall 2001
*Member (elected), Faculty Advisory Council to the President of the University, 1997-1999, 2012-14
*Member (elected), Graduate Council, 2008-10
*Member (elected), Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, 2003-05, 2006-08, 2009-11, 2015-17; Chair, IAC, 2007-08; ExCom member 2009-10; 2010-11
*Member (elected), Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee, 2017-19, 2019-2021
*Member, University Committees on Asian Studies and International Studies [since 1988]
*Member, Islam Search Committee, Religious Studies, 2005-06
*Member, Off-Campus Scholarships and Grants Committee, 1990 - 1994, 1997 - 2002, 2003-14
*Search Committees, International Studies: Co-chair 1995-96; Co-chair 2000-01; Chair 2006-07

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