As acquisition and developmental editor for a small press in Boston, MA, and throughout a career in academia and the arts, I’ve been helping writers make meaning for over twenty-five years. With an especially sympathetic ear for works in the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts, I am delighted to offer freelance editorial services to publishers and independent authors of creative and scholarly nonfiction in all forms and formats, from textbooks and trade publications to PhD dissertations and academic journal articles.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Partial Client List
Harvard University Press
University of California Press
New York University Press
Society for American Archaeology
University of Hawai‘i Press
University of New Mexico Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Washington Press
AcadEdit
Partial Project List
Recent Books
Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories (Anna L. Boozer, Bleda S. During, and Bradley J. Parker, editors, University of New Mexico Press, 2020). Copyediting
Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi (Claire Whitlinger. University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Developmental editing, copyediting
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 (Sugata Ray, University of Washington Press, 2019). Copyediting
Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy (Lei Xue, University of Washington Press, 2019). Copyediting
Hattiesburg: A City in Black and White (William Sturkey; Harvard University Press, 2019). Developmental editing, copyediting
Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II (Karma Ben-Johanan, Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Copyediting
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China (James M. Hargett, University of Washington Press, 2018). Copyediting
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant, editors, University Press of Florida, 2020). Copyediting
Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal (Pika Gosh, University of Washington Press, forthcoming). Copyediting
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Frank Pasquale, Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Developmental editing, copyediting
Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (Quito J. Swan, University Press of Florida, 2020). Copyediting
The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era (Charles R. Cobb, University Press of Florida, 2019). Copyediting
The First Codetalkers: Native American Communicators of World War I (William C. Meadows, University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming). Copyediting
The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader: Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History (translated and introduced by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, and David Schaberg, University of Washington Press, forthcoming). Copyediting
What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War (Sarah E. Wagner, Harvard University Press, 2019). Developmental editing, copyediting
Recent Journal Articles, Dissertations, and Theses
“Introducing Diagnostic Products to Low-Resource Settings: An End-to-End Perspective”
“Latino Outdoors: Using Storytelling and Social Media to Increase Diversity on Public Lands”
“An Online Chronology and Encyclopedia of the Arab Press, 1800-1922”
“Supporting Critical Thinking and Creativity in Search”
“Between Huhou and Identity: Spatiality, Belonging, and Citizenship in the Age of Migrations in Contemporary China”
“Testing of an Intervention for Improving Sibling Relationship Quality among Youth in Foster Care”
“Perpetual Inferiority: Whites’ Racial Ideology toward Latinos”
“Women’s Early Experience of Sexual Abuse: Implications of Domestic-Violence Interventions in the Eastern Caribbean”
“Recreation Equity: Is the Forest Service Serving its Diverse Publics”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Nonprofit, Academic, and Arts Management
Acquisition and Developmental Editor, Paradigm Publications, Boston, MA
Dean of Performance Studies, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA
Vice President for Artistic Programs, Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA
Executive Producer / Technical Director, Ojai Music Festival, Ojai, CA
Executive Director, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Portland, OR
Manager of Orchestral Operations, Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen, CO
Artistic Administrator, Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City, MO
Dean, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, OR
President, New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA
EDUCATION
Professional Certificate in Editing, University of California Berkeley Extension
Master of Music, Yale School of Music
Bachelor of Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Northwest Independent Editors Guild
Editorial Freelancers Association
Copyediting.com