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- June 2010: Commenter for a plenary session exploring new ways to think about Appomattox, at the Society of Civil War Historians conference in Richmond, Virginia.
- June 2009-June 2010: Juror for the Tom Watson Brown Book Prize (Civil War Era History), Society of Civil War Historians.
- September 2009: Commenter on a panel dealing with black soldiers in the post-Civil War U. S. army, at the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Cincinnati, Ohio.
- March 2009: Commenter for Panel, “Guilt, Amnesty, and Pardon after the American Civil War,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington.
- November 2008: Scholarly consultant for the American Film Company script, “The Conspirator” (film to be released in April 2011)
- October 2008: Commenter for Panel, “Enforcing Racial/Gender Norms in the Civil War South,” Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- June 2008: Commenter for Panel “The Lived and Not-Lived religious Experiences of a People at War,” Society for Civil War Historians Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- March 2008: Chair for the panel on the “State of the Field in Civil War Military History,” at the Organization of American Historians annual conference, New York, NY.
- February 2008: Interviewed on camera at length at the Redington Museum (Waterville, Maine) by documentary filmmaker Maria Agui Carter for her upcoming PBS documentary on Civil War woman soldier Loreta Janeta Velasquez, “Rebel.”
- March 2007-February 2008: Juror for the Lincoln Prize in Civil War Era History, Lincoln and Soldiers Institute of Gettysburg College.
- October 2007: Chair for the panel on “Women’s Civil War Literature,” American Studies Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
- April 2007: One of three invited historical consultants (with William Blair and Edward Ayers) for the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission’s two-day planning workshop for the state’s commemorations of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War (2011-2015).
- March 2007: Chair and comment for the panel, “New Perspectives on the Union Army,” at the Organization of American Historians annual conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- September 2006: Served as an objective outside reviewer on a tenure case at the University of Connecticut.
- August 2006: Interviewed at length for History Channel documentary, “Full Metal Corset,” on women soldiers during the Civil War. (Broadcast March 2007.)
- August 2005: Outside reviewer for promotion case of an associate professor at IUPUI.
- March 2005: Interviewed at length for History Channel documentary, “Horrors at Andersonville Prison: The Trial of Henry Wirz.”
- January 2002: Outside reviewer, dissertation prospectus, for History department graduate student, Ohio State University.
- October 2000: Interviewed at length, over the course of two days, for a television documentary on women in the American Civil War (producer George Steitz, traveled up to Colby from Pennyslvania expressly for this purpose.).
- 2000: Consultant, Maine Humanities Council Planning Board, for the summer 2001 exhibition at the L. C. Bates Museum in Skowhegan, Maine: “With Valor and Courage: Maine and the Civil War.”
- July 2000: Reviewer for a proposed textbook in American Women’s History, for Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
- February 2000: Outside evaluator, promotion dossier, Bates College.