The background, from my 11/24 posting “Work weeks”:
Back when I still had an academic life, 60 hours a week was the absolutely standard work week, combining teaching, teaching prep, research, publication, preparing and delivering public lectures (see the alarming record of these in yesterday’s posting “Scholarly communication”), and extensive service to the university and the profession.
This is about that extensive service to the university and the profession. Which is chronicled in my giant c.v., along with the teaching and public lectures; once again, the record of enormous amounts of real work, especially reviewing applications for grants from the NSF, NEH, and the Fulbright Program:
Professional service activities:
Acting department chair on various occasions, UIUC and OSU
CIC coordinating committee in linguistics (department chairs in the Big Ten + Chicago), 1966-67.
Consultant, UCLA English Syntax Project, 1967.
Member of editorial board, Linguistic Inquiry, 1970-71; Language, 1973-79; Linguistics and Philosophy, 1976-87; Language Sciences, 1979-83, 1993-95; Innovations in Linguistics Education, 1979-1987; American Speech, 1981-1983; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 1983-88; Phonology, 1983-2000; Linguistics, 1985-1992; Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, 1986-90; Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 1990-92; Morphology Yearbook, 1986-2019; Verbatim, 2004-2019.
Member of LSA Program Committee, 1971-73; Nominating Committee, 1979-81 (chair, 1980-81); Executive Committee, 1986-88; Vice-President, 1991; President, 1992; chair, Editor Search Committee, 1993; Bloomfield Book Award Committee, 1997; delegate to Permanent International Committee of Linguists, 1998-2004; Editor Search Committee, 2000.
Member of steering committee, International Phonology Association, 1972-86. Consultant to various publishers on occasion (Addison-Wesley; Prentice-Hall; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Academic Press; Indiana Univ. Press; Univ. of Minnesota Press; MIT Press; Cambridge Univ. Press).
Referee for NSF, 1968-2019; member of NSF review panel in linguistics, 1976-77; member of NEH review panels, 1980, 1981, 1982; Fulbright review panel in linguistics and English as a Second Language, 1978-81 (chair, 1980-81); referee for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1979-2019
External examiner, University College London, August 1976.
Member of fellowship review panel, National Academy of Sciences, 1977 and 1979;
National Graduate Fellows Program, Department of Education, 1986.
Editor or co-editor of OSU Working Papers in Linguistics Nos. 7, 8, 11, 13, 14,16, 21, 24, 25, 29, 32, 35, 37, 39.
Member of departmental review panel in linguistics, Graduate Center of CUNY, 1977; chairman of review panel, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1980; member of review panel, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1981; member of search committee, Harvard, 1994 and 1999; member of review panel, NYU, 1994; member of review panel, Northwestern, 1995.
Member of Board of Trustees, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1979-84; research committee, 1980-83; nominating committee (chairman), 1983-84.
Member of National Forum on Learning and the American Future, The College Board, 1978-79.
Member of International Advisory Board of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 1979.
Manuscript review for various journals on occasion (Cognitive Psychology, Modern Language Journal, Hebrew Annual Review, Quarterly Review of Biology, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Journal of Linguistics, Al-‘ Arabiyya).
Consultant to Degrees of Reading Power project, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1980-81.
Member of program committee, WCCFL, 1982 and 1984; OSU Conferences on Semantic Theory and How People Parse Sentences, Semantics of Tense and in Discourse, 1982; IUP Regional Conference on Linguistics, 1983; ESCOL, 1990. Member of organizing committee, ESCOL, 1984 and 1987.
Steering committee, NEH education grant to the LSA, ‘Linguistics in the UndergraduateCurriculum’, 1986-87.
Member of Centennial research committee, American Dialect Society, 1987-88. Manager of OUTIL (Out in Linguistics) electronic mailing list, 1991-98.
Section Z (Linguistics and the Language Sciences), American Association for the Advancement of Science: council delegate, 1993-96; nominating committee,1995-7 (chair, 1997); incoming chair, chair, etc., 2000-03.
Co-organizer (with Aaron L. Halpern), Workshop on Second Position Clitics, Linguistic Institute, Columbus OH, July 1993.
Member of President’s and Provost’s Advisory Committee, Ohio State Univ., 1995-2000.
Organizer, session on Expressing Meaning through Word Structure and through Syntax, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle WA, February 1997.
Board of directors, National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, 2001-03.
Delegate to Oxford University Press, 2004-08.
Much of this work was carried out in Washington DC, mostly in the Dupont Circle area or in Georgetown; so for some years I essentially commuted regularly from Columbus OH to DC (flying into and out of DCA, now officially named Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport). Here I especially celebrate the staffs of the Linguistic Society of America, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the Fulbright Program, for making my work with them both smooth and enjoyable.
Finally, I note that this is all about academic service; I have a record of it because I need to supply a professional c.v. periodically for reappointment. My service to the LGBTQ+ community is largely unrecorded here; much of it has been informal, not a matter of positions or titles, but of speaking openly about my life and other lives, and of being available to talk with anyone who might need it.
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