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	Program Committee, American Studies Association 2007 Meeting, Philadelphia
	PRESIDENT, Society of Early Americanists 1999 - 2001 Text of Presidential Address (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
	DIRECTOR, Program in the Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World, College of Charleston 2000 - 2003 Conferences: 2003: Cuisines of the Lowcountry & Caribbean 2002: The Material World of Tidewater, the Lowcountry & the Caribbean (requires MS Word) 2001: Manumission in the Atlantic World
	EXECUTIVE BOARD, MLA Division of American Literature to 1800 2000-present MEMBER, MLA DELEGATE ASSEMBLY 1996 - 1999
	GOVERNING COUNCIL, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, College of William & Mary 1997 - 2000
	CHAIR, ADVISORY COMMITTEE, American Antiquarian Society Program in the History of the Book 2002 - Present Text, Report of the Advisory Committee
	CHAIR, PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 25th Anniversary Meeting American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Charleston 1994
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