Editorial or Board Service to Publications
Member, Editorial Board, Environmental Justice. 2008 -
Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of Environment and History. 1995 - 99.
Book Manuscripts: University of California Press. Yale University Press, Routledge, Rutgers University Press, Duke University Press.
Journal Submissions: Meridians, Environmental History, Environment and History, Science as Culture, American Ethnologist, Contemporary South Asia; Science, Technology and Human Values.
Research Proposals for Professional Associations: NSF Geography program. 1999. NSF Science and Technology Studies Program. 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. Economic and Social Science Research Foundation, UK, 2009.
Outside Referee for Academic Personnel Actions
New York University. External evaluation for Assistant to Associate Professor. 2008.
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. External evaluation for Associate to full Professor. 1998.
Outside Examiner for Doctoral Dissertations
Temple University Doctoral Thesis Defense Exam. 2004.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Doctoral Thesis Defense Exam. 2004.
Visiting Professorships
Visiting Professorship. The Energy and Resources Institute University. New Delhi. August - September 2008.
Visiting Professorship. Jadavpur University. Calcutta. March, 2007.
Membership or Activities in Professional Associations
National Panel for the National Science Foundation’s, Agents of Change program. 2004.
Program Chair for the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meetings to be held in Rhode Island in 2003.
Young Scholars Travel Funds committee of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), 2000-2. Chair of the Committee in 2002.
Alice Hamilton Prize Committee of the American Society for Environmental History, 1999-2001. Was Chair of the Committee, which selects the best essay published in the field in a journal other than Environmental History in 2001.
University of California’s Multi Campus Research Group in World History. 2001 -
Service at University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Environmental Studies:
Curriculum, Graduate, Awards and Outreach Committees.
Colleges:
College Eight UCSC: Provost of the College. Fall 2006 -
– Built a pioneering three quarter freshman core course, Nurturing Environmental Citizenship.
– Catalyzed a new online learning portal, the College Eight Wiki.
– Undertook a major development campaign for College Eight.
Cowell College, UCSC: Advisor to undergraduate freshmen; Commencement Speaker.
Division of Social Sciences:
The Committee on the South Asian Studies Initiative, 1998 - 2001.
Faculty associate of the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, UCSC. 1998 - 2002.
Founding faculty member of the Science, Technology, Medicine and Justice Research Cluster of the CJTC. 2000.
Founding Faculty member of College Ten. Served on the initial advisory committee for College Ten.
Academic Senate:
Committee on Educational Policy, 2008 - 9.
Committee on Planning and Budget, 2005 - 7.
School of Management Steering Committee, 2006-7.
Education Abroad Program committee, 1999 – 2002.
Office of the President:
University of California review committee of the Education Abroad Program in India. 2001-2.
Professional Service
Service to Academic Institutions
