10/2024- present          Convenor of EASA Mining Network.

09/2024-present           SAE Membership and Public Relations Chair of Society for the Anthropology of Europe , American     Anthropological Association. .

2020-present            Coordinator and founder of Benelux Research Network of Southeast European Studies (Chair) -          established with  Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) and Pieter Troch (Ghent University).

01/2019– 12/2019 Honorary Fellow, School of Social Science & Public Policy, Keele UniversityDeana Jovanović is the Honorary Fellow of  School of Social Science & Public Policy (Keele University) and the Honorary Fellow of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg (Germany).

During her PhD Deana received the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) Sutasoma Award, for work likely to make an outstanding contribution to social anthropology.