Academic Service
Bates College
- Chair, Martin Luther King Jr planning committee, 2010-2014
- Prologue, A Program by Bates Admission, November 2012
- Member, Search Committee for the Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice President, 2012-2013
- Member, President’s Diversity Task Force, 2010-2012
- Presenter, “Academic Life at Bates College,” Prologue. 10 November, 2008
- Financial and Advisory Committee to the President, 2006-Present
- Search Committee for The Dean of Students (2004)
- C Organizer of Makin’ Whoopi Symposium, May 2000
- www.bates.edu/~cnero/makinwhoopi.html
- Steering Committee of the Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Consortium Program in CapeTown, South Africa. 1998-Present
- Member of the African American and American Cultural Studies Committee, 1991-Present
- Member of the Extracurricular Activities and Residential Life Committee, 1998-2001
- Advisor, AMANDLA! (formerly Bates Afro-American Society), 1991-1996
- Advisor, OUTFRONT! (formerly Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Alliance), 1991- 2001
- Member of the College Lecture Series Committee, 1995
- Member, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Committee, 1996, 1998
- HIV/AIDS Awareness Committee, 1996
- Member, Committee on Homophobia and Institutional Change, 1997-2000
- Organized African Diaspora Film Festival, 1998
- Organized Lectures, Exhibits, and Performances for the following:
- Bryant Keith Alexander, Scholar in Performance Studies
- Michael Cummings, Quilter and Artist
- DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter, Filmmakers
- Shari Frilot, Filmmaker
- Paula Giddings, Historian
- Elizabeth A. Hadley, Film Scholar
- Essex Hemphill, Poet
- E. Patrick Johnson, Scholar in Performance Studies
- Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Historian and Literary Critic
- Nancy D. Kates, Filmmaker (Brother/Outsider; The Life of Bayard Rustin)
- Henri E. Norris, CEO New Millennia Films
- H. Nigel Thomas, Novelist and Literary Critic
- Kim Marie Vaz, Scholar in Women’s Studies
- Wendy Sutherland, Professor of German Studies (co-sponsored by Mellon Learning Associates Program in the Humanities)
Ithaca College
- Member, Curriculum Committee for the School of Humanities and Sciences, 1988-1990.
- Member, Vice-President of Student Affairs’ Committee on Campus Diversity, 1989-1990.
- Organized Black History Month Film and Speaker Series, February 1990
Indiana University
- Indiana University Black Knowledge Bowl: Coach, 1985-1987.
- Afro-American Studies Newsletter: Co-Editor, 1985-1986.
- Indiana University Black Graduate Council: Recording Secretary, 1984-1985
Professional Organizations
- Manuscript ReaderThe Howard Journal of Communications
Text and Performance Quarterly
Quarterly Journal of Speech - Editorial Board, Howard Journal of Communications, 1994-1998
- Session Organizer, “Minorities in the Reagan-Bush Administrations,” for the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, November 1990
- Program Chair, Minority Voices Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, 1990-1991
- Program Chair, Caucus on Gay and Lesbian Concerns, 1991
- Secretary, The Black Caucus, Speech Communication Association, 1986-88