Below are selected Institutional and Community Service activities, including committees and speaking engagements, that I have undertaken since my hire as a full-time faculty member in fall 2015.

Sabbatical Committee (LSC System)

International Studies Committee (LSC System & LSC-Kingwood)

Council for Online Education (LSC System)

Online Instructional Quality Committee (LSC-Kingwood)

"In the Shadow of Vlad the Impaler: A 15th-Century Wallachian Prince," Oct. 2017

History professor Chris Davis set the stage giving the audience graphic details about Vlad the Impaler. English Professor Joan Samuelson tantalized listeners by showing pictures of Dracula and the damsel in distress while describing the sensuality of the scenes.

Panel Discussion, “Moments in Black History Event,” Feb. 2017

Panel Members Chris Davis, Alfred Dorsey, Shawn Perot, Brittney McClinton, and Okera Bishop (moderator)

EduCon: "The Oral History Project: Connecting Classroom and Community," April 2016

Presented this talk as a featured session at the 2016 EduCon summit at LSC-UP.

Faculty Representative, Texas Community College Teachers Association

Coordinator, LSC Center for Local & Oral History

The LSC Center for Local & Oral History (CLOH) was founded with an LSC Chancellor’s Faculty Technology Innovation Grant in 2016. The Center works to incorporate into the college’s curricula the practice of Oral History, which is defined by the Oral History Association (OHA) as “a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life." Introducing oral history into the classroom empowers students to do and to make history, hence the Center's motto: Carpe Historiam!

D2L/Online Task Force (LSC-Kingwood)

Regularly assisted faculty at EMCID and LSC-Atascocita, building online courses during the fall semester 2018.

Vice President, Humble Museum

Book Reviews Editor, Humanities & Social Sciences Online (H-Net)

Board Member, Society for Romanian Studies

Graduate Student Essay Award Committee, Society for Romanian Studies

Coordinator, LSC Center for Local & Oral History

English Hiring Committee

Honors Day Judge

Speaker Series at the Humble Museum (Organizer and Host)

In spring 2017, in partnership with the Humble Museum, the Center for Local & Oral History (CLOH) helped launch the inaugural Speaker Series at the Humble Museum. The Speaker Series endeavors to create a public forum for local history and civic education by bringing to the museum historians, public officials, artists, museum curators, genealogists, and others to speak on a variety of historical and contemporary issues. With this new initiative, CLOH and the Humble Museum aim to establish new links (and to strengthen old ones) between the college, the museum, and the communities they serves, including local educational institutions, businesses, societies, churches, and governments.

SSH Faculty Book Club (organizer)

Cody Awards Presenter

LSC-Kingwood Chess Club Co-Sponsor

Board Member, Humble Museum

Book Reviews Editor, Humanities & Social Sciences Online (H-Net)

Board Member, Society for Romanian Studies

Graduate Student Essay Award Committee, Society for Romanian Studies (Chair)

Cody Awards Presenter

LSC-Kingwood Chess Club Co-Sponsor

AHA "Heart Walk," SSH Division Organizer and Fundraiser

Book Reviews Editor, Humanities & Social Sciences Online (H-Net)

Board Member, Society for Romanian Studies

Coordinator, LSC Center for Local & Oral History

Graduate Student Essay Award Committee, Society for Romanian Studies