Some work I’ve done
Duke University Press
I’ve copyedited and proofread journals for DUP on a freelance basis, including Radical History Review, Public Culture, and the Duke Mathematical Journal.
Random House
I fact checked David Treuer’s book Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. It’s a powerful intertwining of history and memoir which explores shifting Native American identities under the backdrop of violence, land seizures, forced assimilation, and governmental surveillance.
Lyneise Williams, Professor of Art History at UNC–Chapel Hill
I copyedited Dr. Lyneise Williams’s book Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852–1932 (Bloomsbury). In it, she examines visual codes used to portray Latin Americans and African Americans in order to connect “France's early 19th-century endeavors to create ‘Latin America,’ an expansion of the French empire into the Latin language–based Spanish and Portuguese Americas, to its perception of this population.”
I also fortunate enough to copyedit Dr. Williams’s article “Boundless,” which appeared in Cultural Dynamics. It tells the story of two small doll-like figurines, created in Edgefield, SC a century ago, which have roots in Central African spiritual and craft traditions. Dr. Williams delves into the transatlantic and transgenerational legacies embodied by these figures: “families, places, sweat, labor, life force, and visions for expansive being in the world to come.”
The Rome Foundation
I copyedited and proofread the fourth edition of The Rome Foundation’s 1500-page medical diagnostic manual, which is comprised of 19 chapters written by a total of 117 medical professionals. I also managed changes across the online and journal versions of each chapter.