Harkins currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the Lilly Fellows Program. She is a member of the National Jesuit Advisory Board on Interreligious Dialogue and Relations (2010-present). In 2012, she was chosen to be a participant in the Christian Leaders Initiative Program sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She has most recently been awarded a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship by the European Commission for 24 months of continuous research on the Teacher of Righteousness at the University of Birmingham, UK (309,000 Euros).