Advisory Editorial Board Member of German Politics.

Advisory Editorial Board Member of New German Critique.

Advisory Editorial Board Member of Innovation.

Advisory Editorial Board Member of Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Geschichtswissenschaft.

Advisory Editorial Board Member of Contemporary Austrian Studies.

Advisory Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Area Studies

Advisory Editorial Board Member of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics & Culture

Editorial Board Member of the "Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany" series of The University of Michigan Press.

Member of the Academic Council of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, The Johns Hopkins University

Regular Consultant for "Imagining America", a National Public Radio Project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities on Images of America in Europe.

Program Chairman of the German Study Group and its predecessor, the West German Study Group, at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1979-1992.

Program Chairman of the Study Group "The Jews in Modern Europe" at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1979-present.

Senior Coordinator of the bi-annual German Workshop on American Politics organized by the Center for European Studies, Harvard University and funded by the Draeger Foundation, Luebeck, Federal Republic of Germany, 1984-present.

Academic Advisory Board Member of the Institute of German, Swiss and Austrian Affairs (INGASA) at Nottingham University, Nottingham, England.

Academic Advisory Board Member of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.

Committee Chairman of the Council for European Studies' Pre-dissertation Award Committee, Council for European Studies, Columbia University, New York, 1983-1987.

Program Chairman for the "Politics" section of the 1993 Convention of the German Studies Association, held in Washington, D.C., October 7-10, 1993. I organized and was responsible for 14 panels under this section.

Program Chairman for the "Politics and Economics" section of the 1987 convention of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, Illinois, September 3-7, 1987. I organized and was responsible for 21 panels under this section.

Program Chairman for the "Comparative Politics" section of the Conference Group on Political Economy for the 1986 convention of the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C. August 27-31, 1986.

Guest professor for the Boston University Alumni Association's "Danube Adventure" excursion on the M.S. Volga sailing from Vienna, Austria to Istanbul, Turkey between June 3 and 13, 1986; in charge of lecturing on the history, politics, economy and culture of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Advisor to the German Marshall Fund of the United States on its study of German programs at American high schools, colleges and universities.