Adam has been a freelance copyeditor since 2020. He began his career in academic publishing in 2012 as an assistant in the busy foreign rights department of a university press, based at their London office. In 2014 he moved into production and editorial at a small book production company in Exeter, UK, which specialized in academic titles across the humanities and social sciences. Now based in Birmingham, UK, Adam is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders (CIEP) and continues to train as a copyeditor through the courses they offer. His educational background is in French and film studies.

Adam (he/him) is an art historian, curator, and educator. He is the estate manager and archivist for the Estate of Irving Kriesberg. As an independent curator, Adam has curated exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States. He directed his own gallery in Brooklyn, NY, called et al Projects from 2011 through 2014, where he presented exhibitions featuring emerging contemporary and underrepresented historical artists. His writing about modern twentieth- and twenty-first-century art topics has been published in exhibition catalogues and several print and online cultural publications. He also writes a blog about the benefits of integrating contemporary art within the K-12 and higher education curricula.

Ann (she/her) is an academic editor in the social sciences and humanities, including economics, business, and education. Ann lived in Colombia for 30 years, where she worked as professor and chair of the political science department at the country’s largest private university, executive director of the US-Colombia Fulbright Commission, and founder of a consulting firm in international higher education. Ann’s research on state authority and global security has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and she has been awarded competitive research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. She has also served on various university and education boards. An academic editor since 2020, Ann has helped over 3,000 faculty, PhD students, and researchers in over 20 countries achieve their research, publishing, and employment goals.

Anna’s editing services and scholarly research traverse the boundaries between science and engineering, the humanities, and the social sciences. As a freelance editor, she has worked on academic articles, book chapters, and book proposals in a diverse array of subjects.

She is currently a doctoral candidate in historic preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where her research investigates the history and politics of the uses of science and technology to preserve built heritage. Previously, she earned her MS in structural engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and her ScB in materials engineering and BA in the history of art and architecture from Brown University.

Beth (she/her/they/them) is a published author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and is working on revising her first novel, a humorous paranormal thriller. Beth holds a PhD in music (historical musicology) with a specialty in medieval music, and also the professional certificate in editing from UC Berkeley Extension. Between 2000 and 2018, Beth taught music history and research techniques off and on at a variety of institutions. In 2018, Beth began working as a freelance editor and ghostwriter, including service as a judge in the Ink & Insights literary competition, where she gave feedback to beginning writers who had completed a novel. Beth is now concentrating on editing and hopes to add indexing soon.

Carolee (she/her) is a US cultural historian who has taught art history, US history, and women and gender studies. Her areas of expertise include nineteenth-century US history, performance studies, the history of race and racism, scandals, sexuality studies, and LGBTQ history. She served as the archivist at the Keith Haring Foundation, a registrar for the Feldman Gallery in NYC, and a research assistant for the artist/architect duo Arakawa and Madeline Gins. She currently serves as the Community Archivist and Historian at Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation.

Caroline (she/her) is a Chicago-based book coach, developmental editor, and historian. She specializes in heritage projects, visual culture, and National Romanticism in the North Sea and Atlantic. As an editor and coach, she helps authors of both academic and general nonfiction write their confidence onto the page. Caroline is a high-touch, hands-on editor, ensuring your manuscript or proposal speaks clearly and powerfully to your target audience. She has helped scholars and other nonfiction writers polish drafts and proposals to secure contracts with traditional, indie, and university presses. In tandem with editing, Caroline travels the world as a resident historian with Viking Ocean. She is a certified book coach and member of EFA and ACES.

David (he/him) is a Vienna-based copy editor. His intellectual interests are primarily in history and literature, although he enjoys working with scholars across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. His doctoral dissertation focused on the exotic fiction of Conrad, Maugham, and other British writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

David is a Professional Member of both the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading and the Institute of Professional Editors and is also a member of the MLA, the EFA, and ACES. In addition to his work as an editor, David is a research supervisor in the master’s in education program at Hibernia College, Ireland.

Emily (she/her) is a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and instructor in art and architectural history at various universities in New York; her own writing has appeared in Cornelia magazine and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. With more than seven years experience editing museum interpretive and catalogue materials, she relishes working with authors across the humanities to shape and share their insights with academic and general audiences alike. She brings a broad-based knowledge of early modern to contemporary art and architectural history and cultural production, a strong sense of intellectual curiosity, and a tenacious attention to detail to all projects.

Erin (she/her) earned her MA and PhD in history from Stanford University, where she studied artisans’ ideas about gender in early modern France, Italy, and the Netherlands. More recently, she served as the managing editor of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, a preeminent social science journal. As a developmental editor, she enjoys helping authors in the humanities and social sciences strengthen and refine their arguments. Erin is based in Michigan and is a member of ACES and EFA.

Gloria is a former reporter driven by a wide-ranging curiosity. Her career has crossed many media types and subject areas. She has both covered and worked in local government; performed major edits of business profiles and technical documents; written social media posts for various clients; freelanced steadily in higher education; edited articles and given conference presentations. In recent years, she has edited scholarly books, as well as a memoir. She has also filled several roles in nonprofit operations. Gloria draws on this context to help authors share their expertise clearly and compellingly to a variety of audiences.

After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Hester spent most of a decade working in museums (both national and university-based). She has nearly twenty years of experience as a copyeditor and line editor working for academic presses and individual scholars. She has also published two books and numerous academic papers, so understands what it’s like to write academic materials as well as to edit them. She enjoys working with scholars who are writing in English as a second or other language, helping them to craft their message idiomatically. She is an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, and currently its training director. In her spare time, she is a semi-professional singer.

Jeff has been working as a copyeditor and translator for over a decade. Projects he has undertaken range from journal articles to speeches to novels. He received his BA in music and German from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MA in German from the University of Illinois, where he is also working toward his PhD in German studies. He studied Czech at Charles University in Prague.

Jessica earned her PhD in medieval Spanish at Brown University, where comparing the worldview in Alfonso X’s law codes and miracle songs, the Cantigas de Santa María, prepared her to edit academic and general nonfiction subjects from art to zoology. Her multidisciplinary Law and Order in Medieval Spain is widely cited as an authority. She has also published historical and contemporary magical realist fiction, so she understands the publishing process both as an author and as an editorial professional. She lives, writes, and edits in quietly charming Zamora, Spain.

Karen (she/her) is a freelance editor and educator currently living in Galicia, Spain, along the Camino de Santiago. She holds a BA in Latin American studies from Stanford University, an MA in contemporary art history and visual culture from the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and a PhD in romance studies from Duke University. She is a former assistant professor of Spanish and Latino studies with more than two decades of experience teaching in Spanish and English at
the undergraduate and graduate levels at Duke University, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University, and the International Institute of Spain. She has published articles on radical social movements, urban identity, performance, and gender and sexuality.

Kayla is a cultural heritage researcher and freelance editor based in New York. She brings in-house editorial experience from her research positions in academic departments and museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she edited curatorial texts, publications, and other types of art historical writing. She also has five years of experience providing editorial support for cultural heritage preservation initiatives around the world. She holds a BA in art history from Wellesley College and is completing her MA in art history and archaeology at Columbia University.

Kaylee (she/her) is an art historian, writer, and editor based in Salt Lake City, UT. With more than a decade of experience working in arts institutions and higher education, Kaylee values clear written communication for experts and non-experts alike and is dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange. She has a strong knowledge of the Chicago Manual of Style, and experience editing theses and dissertations, formatting submissions to ProQuest, and proofreading for native and non-native English speakers. Kaylee’s own work focuses on nineteenth-century visual culture, and she has taught art history courses at Duke University and Guilford College. She is currently an editor for the Collective for Radical Death Studies, and her writing has appeared in Early Popular Visual Culture, Public Art Dialogue, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.

Liz (she/her) is an editor, translator, and researcher currently based in Germany. She is a specialist in Russian literature and Soviet and East German cultural history, particularly dance history and the history of aesthetics, and has years of experience conducting archival research. Her study of languages (Russian, German, Latin) and ample international experience make her a strong editor of work by those for whom English is not their first language. She holds degrees in the humanities from Princeton, Oxford, and Brown; was the recipient of a Fulbright research grant to Russia; completed the editing certificate from the University of Chicago, Graham School; and is a member of the EFA.

Lynne is a freelance copyeditor and writer. Her career is grounded in her years working as a freelance journalist in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, where she lived for over two decades. During that time, she covered a diverse array of topics, ranging from the opening of China’s economy to the country’s then-fledgling aviation industry and trade issues and corporate profiles in Hong Kong, and wrote about drought and air pollution challenges in Taiwan. Currently based in Los Angeles, Lynne has shifted her focus to copyediting academic and nonfiction books in recent years. She has worked with ESL students as a writing coach and uses her journalistic background to help authors clarify their writing to make it more accessible to the target audience. She holds a copyediting certificate from University of California San Diego Extension and is a member of both the EFA and ACES.

Matt (he/him) relishes the intellectual engagement of developmental editing. A former professor (thirteen years) and museum lecturer with extensive experience in academic writing, he thrives in helping others make themselves heard with clarity, interest, and resonance. His own publications include grant-supported articles and an award-winning book on medieval art and the senses. His teaching spanned premodern art. He developed museum tours on topics ranging from Islamic ceramics to twentieth-century abstraction. Matt is at home in humanities scholarship that integrates theory and different disciplinary perspectives. He speaks French and Italian (also reads German, Latin). He is a member of the EFA.

Matthew is an editor and published author of fiction and nonfiction. He received his PhD in History from Northwestern University, where he wrote his dissertation on the introduction of race science into China. As an editor, he has worked on book manuscripts (both fiction and nonfiction), academic dissertations, peer-reviewed articles, research proposals (including STEM subjects), grant and fellowship applications, college applications, resumes and CVs, government petitions, blog posts, podcast scripts, and everything in between. Also a certified TESOL instructor, he specializes in helping multilingual authors express themselves clearly and with intention.

Maartje is a freelance editor and writer based in Cambridge, UK, and has a PhD in seventeenth-century literary history. With 12 years of experience in editorial roles at a leading university press, she knows the publishing process inside out and understands exactly what your academic publisher is looking for. She can prepare your book manuscript or article to their exact requirements and work with you to frame an effective proposal. She even loves tidying up references! She also writes research and news features for college development publications and jacket and marketing copy for academic books, and loves to make complex ideas accessible. Her specialist subjects are literature and history. She is a Professional Member of the CIEP.Copye

Macushla (she/her) is a published historian, writer and editor, with a PhD in design history. Originally from Ireland, she has now made Berlin her home. Her professional career started as an assistant curator in the Prints and Drawings Department at the National Gallery of Ireland before she moved into academia. Her academic career was primarily based at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, including her role as acting director of the master’s program in design history and material culture. She has a passion for all things eighteenth century but her teaching and research has spanned all periods and subjects, with a focus on design and material culture. She speaks German, and reads French and Italian. She is a certified member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading in the UK.Co

Maria (she/her) is an editor who also translates from French and German to English. She has translated and edited texts ranging from literary to technical and early modern to contemporary. In her past life as a tenured professor, she taught translation and media studies, and she stays up to date by reviewing recent academic monographs and continuing her scholarly work in the field of book history. She’s familiar with a range of citation formats and archival conventions, having conducted research at major European research libraries, including the HAB and the BSB in Germany and the BnF in France. She loves the challenge of translation and the pleasure of helping scholars bring their research to an English-speaking audience.

Niko is an editor and historian who lives in New York. She received her MA in history and literature from Columbia University in Paris. Her MA thesis focused on literary representations of perfume in nineteenth-century French poetry. She received her certificate in editing from the University of Washington and completed Columbia’s publishing course. She has worked on a wide variety of texts, including travel guides, law reviews, academic articles, and memoirs.

Rachel (she/her) is a developmental editor and academic based in New York. She brings to her work as an editor more than ten years of experience teaching literature and interdisciplinary academic writing courses. Teaching and tutoring students in writing expanded her set of techniques for addressing questions of craft and informed her approach to constructive dialogue. She has worked on manuscripts in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. With a strong background in the fine arts, including an MFA in painting from Yale, she also welcomes the chance to work with artists on written materials. Her scholarship has appeared in top-tier journals in her areas of study, nineteenth-century British literature and the history of aesthetic thought.

Rees is a trained and experienced editor, academic, and writing professional. She has more than thirty years of experience as a coach, teacher, mentor of learners from all backgrounds, ages, and English-language skill levels. She edits and English checks all kinds of documents, although typically works with STEM and social science researchers. She comes from the US, but after serving with the Peace Corps in Mexico at the Autonomous University of Hidalgo State, she now spends significant time in Guanajuato City in Mexico and in Nelson, BC, in Canada. Rees is fluent in Spanish, and she is a member of EFA, NorthWest Editors Guild, and ACES. She earned a Copyediting Certificate from UCSD Extension. When not reading, she practices yoga, meditation, hiking, and paddling.

Sarah (she/her) is a freelance editor and historian based in the Catalonia region of Spain. She has a PhD in African history from Boston University and has published works on the military history of West Africa, memory and kinship studies, and the history of the greater Atlantic World. She also spent eleven years as a consultant to Baker Library’s Special Collections Department at Harvard Business School, contributing to numerous projects for distribution in print and other media, including physical exhibits and corporate publications. A speaker of French, Catalan, and Pulaar, she knows the difficulties of expressing complex ideas in a secondary language. She is a member of the African Studies Association, the Society for Military History, and the EFA.