Associate College Professor of German, serves as co-chair of the All-USA Academic Team Nominating Committee and attended the conference “New Directions in the Humanities, From Digital Humanities to a Humanities in the Digital” at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in June 2015. Also accompanied the 2016 Coca Cola New Century Scholar Tiantian Trimble to Chicago, Illinois in April 2016 in order to attend the Phi Theta Kappa Presidents Breakfast at the American Association of community College’s Annual Convention where Ms. Trimble was presented the New Century Scholar award.