Dr. Darnell is a Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at Western University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the American Philosophical Society, past President of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, the American Society for Ethnohistory and the Canadian Anthropology Association. She has twice served as President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association and represented faculty on the UWO Board of Governors (2011-15). She chaired the American Anthropological Association’s Centennial Executive and Advisory Commissions (planning for publications and celebrations in 2002). She is Project Director and General Editor for a SSHRC Partnership Grant: 'Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition' (2013-2020). Through her work in the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health at Western University, she continues to make significant research contributions in the area of environmental health standards and consultation.