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Membership in Professorial Societies:

Linguistic Society of America, Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Sigma Tau Delta, American Dialect Society.

University Service:

• Curriculum Committee (English Department). Fall 2005-Spring 2006.
• Faculty Senate. Fall 2005-Spring 2006.
• Committee D (Research and Scholarship Committee—University Level Committee). Fall 2005-Spring 2006.
• PhD Advisory Committee. Fall 2006-2009 & Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
• Faculty Council. Fall 2006-Spring 2015.
• Batten Arts and Letters Research and Scholarship Committee. Fall 2007-Spring 2009.
• ODU Sexual Harassment Committee. Fall 2007-present.
• Grievance Committee. Summer 2008-present.
• College Curriculum Committee Fal.l 2011-Spring 2012.
• Department of English Tenure and Promotion Committee. Fall 2009-present.
• College of Arts and Letters Graduate Studies Committee. Fall 2013-Spring 2016.

Professional Service:

• Editorial Assistant, Language Learning: A Journal of Applied Linguistics, Summer 1999-Spring 2002.
• Member of the Board of Directors, Language Learning: A Journal of Applied Linguistics, Spring 2002-Fall 2003.
• Outside Reviewer, National Science Foundation (linguistics). Fall 2004-present.
• Abstract Reviewer for NWAV Conference
• Reviewer for Language in Society
• Reviewer for Language Variation and Change

Conference Sessions Chaired:

• Contact and Dialect Acquisition. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 34, New York University.
• Structural Variation in African American English (AAE) II. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 33, Ann Arbor.
• Language and the South. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXII, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.