Distinguished Research Professor (2013 – present) National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

Distinguished Guest Professor (May 1-June 1, 2017) Faculty of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Italy

Distinguished Visiting Professor (Oct. 15-Nov. 25, 2013) Language & Society Center, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Yunshan Chair Professor (2011-2013)
Yunshan Chair Professorship, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

Resident Senior Research Fellow (2005 May-June)
Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano, Italy

Resident Senior Research Fellow in Bellagio Research Center, Italy (2004 October-November)
Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA

Resident Senior Fellow and Professor, Department of English & German (2001 February-Sept.)
University at Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Charles Culpepper Research Fellow and Professor, (1991)
Duke University, Humanities Computing Center, Durham

Fulbright Professor, (1989 September-December)
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Founder and Chairman of CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research):
degruyter.com/view/j/caslar
www.caslarcenter.com

Founder and Co-director of Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism:
http://www.upf.edu/bsbm/en/

Founder and Co-director of the Sorbonne-Paris – SUNY Albany graduate student symposium series
www.paris-sorbonne.fr/IMG/pdf/Programme-26.pdf

Founder and Director of “Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication” conference series. The 7th conference will be held at the University of Split, Croatia on June 10-12, 2016:www.unist.hr/interculturalpragmatics2016