Current University Service:
History Department curriculum committee, chair
History Department IRB representative
Urban Studies program adviser
A&S Faculty Status Committee
McLean County Museum Library Committee

Professional Activities:
Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2004-present
Advisory board, H-DC network, 2003-present
Board of Directors, Conference of Historical Journals, 2008-present

Executive board, History Cooperative, 2008-10
Editorial board, Journal of Urban History, 2002-07
Newsletter editor, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1999-2003

Board of Directors, Urban History Association, 2006-09
Program committees: Urban History Association, 2002, 2004, 2008 meetings; National Conference on American Planning History, 1999-2001 (Assistant Chair, 2001)
Prize committee for non-North American books, Urban History Association, chair 1999; member 2001, 2009
Exhibit consultant, Adolf Cluss: From Germany to America, Sumner School Museum, Washington, and Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Germany, fall 2005, <www.adolf-cluss.org> (Award of Merit, AASLH, 2006)

Manuscript evaluations for American Nineteenth Century History; Journal of American History; Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Journal of Urban History; Michigan Historical Review; Southwestern Historical Quarterly; Bedford/St. Martin's; Cornell University Press; Duke University Press; Oxford University Press; Prentice-Hall; Texas A&M University Press; University of California Press; University of Chicago Press.

Professional Organizations:
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
British American Nineteenth Century Historians
Netherlands American Studies Association
Society for American City and Regional Planning History
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Texas State Historical Association
Urban History Association