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 theArts 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