Associate ProfessorPeter Field

Princeton University, 2009-10 Resident Fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, at Princeton University, sponsored by the Department of Politics.

Austalasian American Studies Association Board Member, 2004-05, 2007-09

Conference contributor/organizer for 2006 "Who Freed the Slaves" held at CUNY Rivkind Center, City College of New York, including traveling exhibition, book signings and weekly seminars with established scholars. Facilitator of one seminar on Abraham Lincoln.

American Historical Assn (From 1997)

NY Public Library Research Fellow

Princeton Davis Fellow

Princeton University, Pew Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow (1998-1999)

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (From 1997)

Society of Historians of the Early American Republic (1997-present)

Yale University sponsored conference "Unshackled Spaces: Fugitives and Slavery in the Americas," New Haven, Connecticut, USA , December, 6-7 2003

Yale University, New Haven, “The Intellectuals and Slavery,” December 18, 2002 -- invitation to deliver address with honorarium

Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, "Speaking to Democracy: Failure and Success on the American Lecture Circuit before the Civil War," November 20, 2002 -- invitation to lecture at former university of employ.

Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, “American Romantics and Race: From Emerson to Jefferson,” March 22, 2002 -- Expenses paid invitation to deliver address.

Canterbury Historical Association, Christchurch, New Zealand, "Toward the Democratic Intellectual: On Socrates and Emerson," April 10, 2001 -- invitation to speak as new faculty member.

Invitation only conference, at Princeton University (all expenses covered) on "Law, Liberty and Virtue;" invited speaker (2011)

Invited lecturer and panelist for "Who Freed the Slaves," an exhibition and set of seminars sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, New York City, New York, 2006. "Understanding the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation." March, 2006.

Invited participant in seminar discussions over two days on 'Reevaluating the Legacy of Thomas Jefferson.' Sponsored and hosted by the United States Studies Centre," University of Sydney, April 15-16, 2009

Invited participant in discussions over two days on "The Last Best Hope of Earth: A Symposium on the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's Birth" held at 1300 Eagle Road in St. Davids, PA, October 22-24 2009, sponsored by Templeton Honors College at Eastern University.