Cornell University Service   

• 1972   Member, Government Department Development Committee   
• 1972 - 1973  Chairman, European Studies Committee for International Studies   
• 1973 - 1975  Founder and Director, Western Societies Program  
• 1973 - 1976  Member, University Library Board   
• 1981 - 1985  Member, Western Societies Program Executive Committee   
• 1983 - 1984  Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Steering  Committee   
• 1984 - 1985  Member, Government Department Graduate Committee   
• 1986 - 1987  Chair, Government Department Academic Priorities Committee   
• 1986 - 1988 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Dean' Advisory Committee of Science and Technology   
• 1986 - 1990  Member, Hull Fund, Publication Committee   
• 1986 - 1991  Member, Luigi Einaudi Chair, Steering Committee   
• 1988 - 1989  Member, Provostʹs Task Force on the Social Implications of Science  And Technology   
• 1989 - 1990  Co-Chair, Government Department Search Committee  
• 1989 - 1991 Member, Executive Committee, Program on Soviet and East European Studies   
• 1990 - 1992  Chair, Government Department Computer Committee   
• 1990 - 1993  Director, Government Department Placement Committee   
• 1992 - 1994  Chair, Luigi Einaudi Chair Executive Committee   
• 1997 - 1998  Member, Government Department Undergraduate Committee   
• 1998 - 1999  Chair, Government Department Search Committee  
• 2001 - 2002  Member, Cornell Interdisciplinary Social Science Committee   
• 2002 - 2003  Co-Chair, Government Department Search Committee   
• 2002 - 2005  Director, Program for the Study of Contentious Politics  
• 2004 - 2005  Member, Social Science Advisory Committee   
• 2004 - 2006  Chair, Government Department Search Committee   
• 2005 - 2007  Member, Social Science Internal Advisory Committee  
• 2006 - 2008 Member, Institute for the Social Sciences, Theme Project on Contentious Politics 

Consultancies 

• 1990   German Marshall Fund of the United States  
• 1992 Report for the Social Science Research Council on the Future of European Studies   
• 1998 -1999  Consultant for PBS/WETA documentary, "A Force more Powerfu"  
• 2001 - 2002 Chair, German Marshal Fund of the United States Research Fellowship Selection Committee  
• 2006 Program Consultant, Global Civil Society Program, Ford Foundation 

Association Services

• 1985 - 1987  President, Conference Group on Italian Politics   
• 1990 - 1991  Chair, A.P.S.A. Gabriel Almond Award Committee  
• 1994 - 1996 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Nominations Committee   
• 1997 - 1998  Program Chair, Conference Group on Italian Politics  
• 1998 - 2001 Member, European Community Studies Association Executive Committee   
• 2003 - 2004  Vice President, A.P.S.A. Comparative Politics Section    
•  2005-2007  President,  A.P.S.A. Comparative Politics Section 

 Editorial Board

• 1994 -   Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Italian Studies   
• 1995 - 1998  Member, Editorial Board, Revue Suisse de Science Politique   
• 1997 - 2001  Member, Editorial Board, Annual Review of Political Science  
• 1998 -  Member, Editorial Board, Contentious Politics Series, Cambridge University Press  
•  2004-   Member, Editorial Board, European Political Science 

• 2005. The New Transnational Activism. Cambridge University Press. 
• 2001. (with Doug Imig, eds.) Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in Europeanizing  Polity. Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.  
• 2001. (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly) Dynamics of Contention. Cambridge University Press. (trans. Dinamica de la contienda politica. Madrid: Hacer Editorial, 2005).   
• 2001. (with Ron Aminzade, et al.) Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics.  Cambridge University Press.  
• 2005. (with Donatella della Porta, eds.). Transnational Protest and Global Activism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.   
• 2006 (with Charles Tilly). Contentious Politics. Boulder, CO: Paradigm  Publishers (trans: Politica conflittuale. Milan: Mondadori, 2007). 
• He is currently completing a book with Charles Tilly called Contentious Politics (Paradigm 2006). Recent work that can be viewed through this website are: "Contention and Institutions in International Politics" (2001), "The Dualities of Transnational Contention" (2005), "Rooted Cosmopolitans," (2005), all three of which draw from his New Transnational Activism, and "Identity Work" from Tilly and Tarrow, Contentious Politics (2006). Tarrow tries to justify the many twists and turns in his career in "Confessions of a Recovering Structuralist" (2006), and has recently bolstered his flagging energies by co-authoring articles with Tsveta Petrova ("Transactional and Participatory Activism", 2007) and Jennifer Hadden ("When Barking Dogs Whimper: What Happened to the American Global Justice Movement After Seattle," in press).