Service
To the profession...
Founding Editor of Foundations for Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences: Concise Monographs (Springer), 2023–
Advisory Board member, R3ISE Graduate Science Program, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2023–
Grant Review Panelist (Standard and DDRIG), National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Division, 2017-2018
Chair, 1st Annual Poster Forum, Philosophy of Science Association, 2016
Nominating Committee member (elected), Philosophy of Science Association, 2020-2021
Member-at-Large (elected), Section on History & Philosophy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016–2020
Organizing Committee Co-Chair, Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
General Editor of Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, 2014–present
Volume 20: Gorham, G., B. Hill, E. Slowik, and C.K. Waters (eds.). 2016. The Language of Nature Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Volume 21: Peschard, I. and B. van Fraassen (eds.). 2018. The Experimental Side of Modeling. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Volume 22: Love, A.C. and W.C. Wimsatt (eds). 2019. Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Volume 23: Baxter, J., O. Lean, and W.C. Bausman (eds). 2023. From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Founding editor of Philosophy & Theory in Biology (online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal) with Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY-Lehman), Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University), and Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University), 2009–2014
Philosophy, Theory & Practice in Biology, Editorial Board, 2015–present
Section editor of “Philosophy of Evo-devo” (12 entries) for Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide (2021), edited by L. Nuño de la Rosa and G.B. Müller. Springer.
Research Topic editor (with Scott Lidgard [Field Museum]) of “New Perspectives on Living Fossils” for Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022-3.
Co-Editor of European Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting 2021 Proceedings, published in European Journal of Philosophy of Science, 2022-3.
&HPS – Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Steering Committee, 2009–present; Executive Committee, 2015-present
Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Steering Committee, 2018–
Philosophy of Science, Associate Editor, 2019–
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Editorial Board, 2018–
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Editorial Board, 2018–
Metascience, Editorial Board, 2010–present
Bioscience, Editorial Board, 2012–present
Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.), Editorial Board, 2013–present
Science: Philosophy, History and Education Book Series (Springer), Editorial Board, 2013–present
Council Member (elected), International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, 2013–2017
FWO: Research Foundation – Flanders (Belgium), Review College, 2021 – 2026
Board of Directors, “Building Foundations in Science-Engaged Theology: Insights from Philosophy of Science”
Journal Referee
&HPS5 Proceedings
Acta Biotheoretica
BioEssays
Biology & Philosophy
Bioscience
British Journal for Philosophy of Science
Developmental Biology
Erkenntnis
Evolution & Development
Evolutionary Biology
Genome
Heredity
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol)
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of Morphology
Mind & Matter
Philosophical Studies
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy, Theory & Practice in Biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Psychology Research and Behavioral Management
Science & Education
Science Education
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
Synthese
The Quarterly Review of Biology
Zoologischer Anzeiger
Peer Review
Annual Meeting Reviewer for Society for Exact Philosophy
Cambridge University Press
Canada Research Chairs Program – College of Reviewers
Graduate Women in Science National Fellowship Program
John Templeton Foundation
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research
KU Louvain
MIT Press
National Science Foundation
Oxford University Press
Program Committee for "Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences" (CAS-LMU Munich)
Program Committee for “(Re)engineering Biology” (Pittsburgh-CPS)
Program Committee for “Infinite Idealizations in Science” (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
Research Foundation – Flanders (Postdoctoral Fellow Referee)
Springer
Swiss National Science Foundation
University of Chicago Press
Western Canadian Philosophical Association
To the University of Minnesota...
Institutional
CLA FRAC reviewing (2023)
CLA DDF reviewing (2023)
Center for Austrian Studies Advisory Board (2022-)
CLA DFRACS Undergraduate Mentor (2019-2020)
Search Committee, Director of the Center for Bioethics (2019)
CLA Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Reviewer (2019)
DIS/CLA Learning Abroad for Educated Futures Symposium Panelist (2019)
CLA Time Past, Time Present, Time Future Symposium Chair/Organizer (“Looking Forward: CLA in 2068”; 2018)
CLA ‘Sneak Preview’ for prospective students (2017, 2007)
HSTM Director Search Committee (2017)
CLA Showcase (2017)
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Selection Committee (2016, 2015)
CLA Roadmap Initiative Committee – Research (2014–2015)
Academic Innovation Grants Committee (2013–2015)
Graduate School Interdisciplinary Committee (2013–2014)
CLA Winton Chair Committee (2013–2014)
Biology, Society, and Environment Advisory Committee (2013–)
CLA Individual Degree Program Committee (2012–2015)
CLA Undergraduate Freshmen Scholarship Reviewer (2013, 2011)
Imagine Fund Deputy Reviewer (2012)
CLA College Day (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009)
Honors Program Preview Seminar (2013, 2012)
CLA Undergraduate Continuing Scholarship Reviewer (2010, 2009, 2008)
CLA Course Review Committee (2009–2011)
CLA Faculty Calling Outreach (2009)
CLA Freshmen Research Award Faculty Participant (2008–2009)
Departmental
Admission and Aid Committee (2023-4, 2008)
Brodbeck Event Planning Committee (2024, 2020)
Salary Review Committee (2023, 2021, 2017, 2015, 2013)
Committee on Committees (2023, 2020, 2014, 2013, 2012)
Staffing and Awards (2022-3, 2018-20, 2014-5)
Tenure and Promotion Committee [Chair] (2020)
Committee on Committees (2020, 2014, 2013, 2012)
Placement Committee Chair (2017–18)
Chair of Faculty Search Committee, History of Philosophy (2015–16)
Library Liaison (2015–17)
MCPS Governing Board (2014–)
MCPS Executive Committee (2014-)
Executive Advisory Committee (2014–)
Colloquium Committee (2012–14, 2009, 2007)
Placement Committee (2013–14)
Curriculum Development Committee (2012)
Woodbridge Scholarship Award Committee (2012, 2007)
Website Coordinator (2009–2014)
Standing Search Committee (2008–2014)
Departmental Planning Committee (2008)
Other (prior to the University of Minnesota)
Co-organizer of the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Seminar Series (2005–2006; sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC)
Pitt/CMU Graduate Conference Referee: 1998, 2002
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Representative for HPS Department (University of Pittsburgh), 1999–2001
Graduate Student Representative for HPS departmental meetings (University of Pittsburgh), 1999–2002
Instructor for Teaching Assistant Orientation and Training (University of Pittsburgh) - Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education: (1) 2000: “Getting Started in the Classroom” & “Creating an Inclusive Classroom”; (2) 2001: “The 50-Minute Lecture”; (3) 2001: “Getting Started in the Classroom”