Peter Monteath was organizer, with Matt Fitzpatrick, of the Australasian Association of European Historians Conference held in Adelaide in July 2009, the Globalizing Germany conference held in July 2012, the Savage Worlds conference of June 2015 and the Amidst Empires conference January 2018. He is a member of the Australian Historical Association and is on the editorial boards of the journals Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and The Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia. He is currently President of the History Council of South Australia and a trustee of The History Trust of South Australia.