[1] As of 2011, she has had associate faculty status in the Department of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Smith-Shank was the NAEA Women's Caucus past president from 1998 to 2000 with Elizabeth Ament.
[2] She has served on the executive board of InSEA of over 10 years, and was the president of the Semiotic Society of America in 2017.
[3] Smith-Shank and Karen Keifer-Boyd co-edited and founded Visual Culture & Gender, an international multimedia juried journal.
[4] Smith-Shank is the associate editor of International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric.