University and Academic Service
- President, Bass School’s Association of Graduate Students (AGS), 2024–2026
- Festival Director, Bass Big Screen Film Festival, 2026
- Organizer and Mentor, Bass School Mentorship Program for Incoming Students, Spring/Summer 2025 & 2026
- Conference Co-organizer, The RAW Graduate Conference, Spring 2024
- Conference Co-organizer, Global Cinema Symposium, Fall 2024
Public-Facing and Professional Engagement
- Co-Chair, SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, 2026–2028
- Graduate Student Representative, SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, 2023–2025
- Program Organizer and Moderator, SCMS Transnational Cinemas SIG Summer Writing Together Program, Summer 2024 and Summer 2025
- Programming Committee Volunteer, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Film Festival, 2023, 2024, and 2025
- Jury Member, Cosmic Film Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, April 2025
- Event Curator, Shot/Reverse Shot Film Screening Series, November 2022
- Jury Member, Dallas 48 Hour Film Project, November–December 2022
- Institute Fellow and the Conference Organizing Team Member, The Michael K. Schoenecke Leadership Institute, Southwest Popular American Culture Association (SWPACA), 2019-2021
Mazyar Mahan 