Consulting

Charles University, Prague, Beyond Security: the Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building 2025

Yale University, ISM, consultant on ritual studies

Stanford University Humanities Center, outside reader for a dissertation, 2019

Celebrants Foundation, interviewee, rites of passage, 2015; 2019

Revealer, the, interviewee, ritual studies, 2013

University of Oslo, advisory board, 2009-2012, religion in pluralistic societies (PLUREL)

University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, advisory board, 2009-2011, Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place, and Sustainability

University of Limerick, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, curriculum design consultant, 2008– 2009, M.A. in Festive Arts; M.A. in Ritual and Song

University of Colorado, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, master workshop for doctoral fellows, Media, Religion, and Culture Center, 2004

Northern Lights and Ocean Entertainment, Halifax, for Vision TV, consultant, interviewee, and content advisor, 2001-2003, Three–part film series, Reinventing Ritual, directed by Sonya Jampolsky, produced by Johanna Eliot

Pro Media International, Toronto, for CBC TV, consultant and content advisor for the pilot, 2003, Human Rites, Hamlin Grange and Cynthia Reyes, producers, film series pilot

WordBridge [playwriting lab], resource artist, 2001, ritual and playwriting

Sleeping Giant Productions, Toronto, consultant and interviewee, 1999, film series: Death: A Personal Understanding

Sundance Institute, Playwrights Lab, consultant, 1996, 1997, ritual in theater

Quotidian Independent Documentary Research, Santa Fe, NM,  film consultant, 1992, Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe, Jeanette DeBouzek and Diane Reyna

Canadian Museum of Civilization, consultant, ritual and performance in museum spaces

Glenbow Museum, consultant on the display of sacred objects

Minnesota Humanities Commission, consultant, rites of passage in public schools

University of Colorado, Religious Studies, Consultant, PhD program proposal

Polish Theater Laboratory, Jerzy Grotowski, dir., Invited participant, 1980, Theater of Sources Project (international experiment with ritualizing in the forest)

Center for Documentation and Preservation of Places of Worship, consultant,  display of sacred objects

University of Wisconsin Arboretum, consultant, ritual and ecology

Society for Ecological Restoration, consultant, ritual and the environment

American Bible Society, consultant on religion, art, and the multimedia Bible, The Neighbor (a video)

Cranbrook Institute of Science, content advisor, Celebrations: Cycles of Human Life

British Broadcasting Corp (BBC IV), interviewee, 2003, ritual and science

Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC, Tapestry), interviewee on seasonal rites

National Public Radio (NPR, Talk of the Nation), interviewee on seasonal rites

National Public Radio (NPR the Infinite Mind), interviewee on rites of passage, 2001

Public Radio International (PRI), interviewee on ritual and adolescence, To the Best of Our Knowledge

Arts & Entertainment (A&E Channel, Ancient Mysteries, by FilmRoos), interviewee and consultant

Sacred Rites and Rituals, McMaster University, Religious Studies, consultant on cross–cultural teaching

Oxford University Press, Manuscript assessment

Cambridge University Press, Manuscript assessment

Princeton University Press, Manuscript assessment

Harper & Row Press, Manuscript assessment

Routledge Press, Manuscript assessment

State University of New York Press, Manuscript assessment

Laurier University Press, Manuscript assessment

University of New Mexico Press, Manuscript assessment

National Endowment for the Humanities, Project proposals assessment

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Project proposals assessment

National Science Foundation, Project proposals assessment