remote
academic, grassroots, non-fiction, music, history, anthropology, culture
I am an indexer, editor, and designer specializing in scholarly publishing. I deeply enjoy the challenge of copyediting, stylistic editing, and proofreading complex books and journal articles. I also savor the process of providing back-of-the-book and embedded indexes that bring readers deeper into scholarly stories. I hold a PhD in cultural history (UC Berkeley, musicology, 2015) and have a wide range of interests that I would be excited to mobilize in support of your project. Over fifteen years of interdisciplinary research and teaching have given me a breadth of specialized knowledge bases, including musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, history, cultural history, colonial history, Indigenous studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, anthropology, peace and conflict studies, and women’s and gender studies.
With substantial experience in design and production within academic, trade, and community-based publications, I am uniquely equipped to understand production deadlines. I was the co-editor of an Indigenous-led magazine, Red Rising, for five years, as well as the design, production, and administrative coordinator for an academic publisher with a trade imprint for two years. I aim to practice trauma-informed editing, indexing, and design and to mobilize conscious style and design justice principles.