Professional and Disciplinary Service


2005 Member, Scholarship Development Committee
Midwest Sociological Society

April, 2005 Session Organizer and Discussant
Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Educational Institutions & Policies: Challenges and Changes for the 21st Century”
“Computing & Information Technologies: Changing Identities, Interactions, Inequalities, & Institutions”

June, 2004 Invited Book Reviewer, Roxbury Publishing

Aug., 2001 – Aug., 2003 Webmaster, American Sociological Association Theory Section web site

April, 2003 Session Organizer and Discussant
Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago, Illinois.
“Quantitative Methods”
“Educational Reform: Policies and Pedagogies for a Dynamic Era”

April, 1999 Session Presider
Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Complexity Theory”

April, 1998 Student Paper Roundtable Co-Presider
Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Kansas City, Missouri.
“Ongoing Student Research: Professionalizing a New Generation of Sociologists”
Co-Sponsored by the ASA Honors Program and the Honors Program Student Association

Professional Memberships

American Sociological Association
Communication and Information Technologies; Sociology of Education; History of Sociology;

Mathematical Sociology; Quantitative Methodology; Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Theory

Midwest Sociological Society

American Educational Research Association
Advanced Studies of National Databases; Chaos & Complexity Theory; Educational Statisticians; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Multiple Linear Regression/General Linear Model; Politics of Education; School Community, Climate, and Culture; School Effectiveness and School Improvement; Sociology of Education

Association for Computing Machinery
Computers & Society (SIGCAS), Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), Simulation & Modeling (SIGSIM)