 She was the President of the Wildavsky Prize Committee of the American Political Science Association (2006-2008), member of the doctoral grants committee and the standard research grants committee for interdisciplinary research of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2003-2006, and 2010–2011, respectively), member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile in Bucharest (2010-2012), member of the commission on social sciences of the National Commission for Attestation of University Titles and Diplomas (Consiliul National de Atestare a Titlurilor si Diplomelor Universitare, CNATDCU), and an evaluator for the National Council for Scientific Research (Agentia Nationala de Cercetare Stiintifica) of the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport (2011-2012), the University Babes-Bolyai (2013), and the British Academy's Leverhulme Small Research Grants (2014), among others.She is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of some twenty scholarly journals published in North America and Europe, including "Human Rights Review".She has been a member of the Club of Rome since 2009.