​ Committee memberships
2018 on               Member, Higher Education Committee, Association for Art History
2015-2017        Selection panel member, ‘Distinguished Feminist Award’, College Art Association USA; 
                                  2016-2017 Chair of panel
2009-2012        Member, Programming Advisory Group, Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh
2009-2010        Convened the Arts and the G20 town meeting to co-ordinate Arts media response to the G20
                                  Summit in Pittsburgh, and subsequently chaired the Pittsburgh is Art campaigning group.
2004-2005        Member, Research Sub Committee, CHEAD
2003-2005        Member, Executive Committee, CHEAD (Conference for Higher Education in Art & Design)
2001                      Member of working party: developing support for Visual Art, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, University of
                                  Highlands and Islands, Isle of Skye.
2000-2005        Member, Committee for Women in the Arts, College Art Association, USA
 
Board memberships
2015-2018        Advisory Board Member, Black Artists and Modernism AHRC-funded project
2009-2012        Chair of Advisory Board: Flight School: Career Development Program for Artists, Pittsburgh PA
2009-2012        Board Member, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
2007-2012        Board member, Pittsburgh International Airport Art Advisory Board
2006-2012        Board member, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh 
2006-2021        Board Member, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
2006-2012        Board Member, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh
2005-2011        Board Member, Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh
2002-2005        Member, Management Board, ADC-LTSN
                                  (from 2004 known as ADM-HEA – Art Design Media Higher Education Academy)
1999-2005        Board Member, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast 
 
Editorial board memberships
2012-2016        Member, Editorial Board, Art Journal 
1999-2005        Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Visual Art Practice
1997-2017        Member, Editorial Board, n. paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal

Academic refereeing has included for the following:
Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society  §  Women’s Studies International Forum  §  Irish Studies Review  §  Journal of Art Historiography  §  Journal of Visual Art Practice
Bloomsbury Publishing  §   University of Minnesota Press  §  Duke University Press  §  Blackwells 
AHRB (Art, Design & Media panel)  §  Australia Research Council