Past Vice-Chair and member, Board of Directors, American Council of Learned Societies, 2010-22
Past Vice-Presiden and member, National Committee for the History of Art.
Past President, College Art Association, 2006-2008. Elected to the board of the College Art Association, the largest association of visual arts professionals, in 2000, Professor Courtright joined the Executive Committee as Vice President of Publications in 2004.
Exhibitions
Organizer, Precious: Finding the Wondrous in the Mead’s European Collection, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
Organizer, Northern Travelers to Italy: Sixteenth-Century Drawings from New England Collections, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Mass., October 26-December 9, 1990
Contributor, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini from the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, by Irving Lavin et al. (Princeton 1981)
Selected Lectures
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard
Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris
Collège de France
Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art American Academy in Rome
University of Sydney
Princeton University
Huntington Library
Renaissance Society of America
National Gallery of Art
College Art Association
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
University of Georgia
Wesleyan University
Cooper-Hewitt Master's Program
Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
Alumni Program, "Amherst Today"
Conference and Session Organizer
Co-chair, Renaissance symposium in honor of Marilyn Lavin's 80th birthday, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, November 2005
Co-chair, workshop, "Constructing Political Ideologies and National Identities in Netherlandish Art," Historians of Netherlandish Art, Antwerp, March 2002
Co-chair, with Abby Zanger (French, Harvard) and Sheila ffolliott (Art History, George Mason University), conference, "Prerogatives of Rule in Early Modern France: Royal Women from Catherine de Médicis to Marie-Antoinette," Amherst College, November 1999
Co-chair, workshop, "Women's Spaces, for Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries," conference, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, November 1997
Co-chair, "Re-Framing the Renaissance," meeting of the New England Renaissance Conference, Amherst College, November 1990
Colloquia Participation
“Measuring Quality,” organized by Christian Fuhrmeister and Iain Boyd Whyte, joint Clark/RIHA (International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art) sponsorship, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, June 2011
"The Historical Imagination of Renaissance Art," organized by Christopher Wood and Alexander Nagel, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, June 2002
Panelist, "Presidential and Scholarly Leadership in the Humanities," American Council of Learned Societies/American Association of Universities-sponsored Humanities Convocation, May 2006
Other Professional Service
Professor Courtright was Vice Chair of the board of the American Council of Learned Societies, the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences.
Additionally, Professor Courtright was a Vice President of the National Committee for the History of Art, the national body of art historians that is affiliated with the international community of art historians, the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), which sponsors an international congress every four years. In 2016 it took place in Beijing.
She also has been Amherst College's representative to the Executive Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and served on the Nominating Committee of the Italian Art Society and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.