Hello! I'm an academic editor who specializes in substantive/ developmental and line editing in art and architectural history. I take great pride and joy in collaborating with authors to produce lucid texts with clear and convincing arguments. I enjoy the unique challenges of both technical "tenure monographs" and cross-over books aimed at wider audiences. I am additionally experienced in editing peer-reviewed journal articles and collaborating with editors on multi-authored works. My other services include proofreading and the nitty-gritty parts of the publishing process, like image permissions and indexing. 

 

My clients' books have been published or are currently under contract with Brill, Edinburgh University Press, Indiana University Press, and The American University in Cairo Press. I am a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association. 

 

I am a trained art historian with museum experience. My work has primarily focused on questions of value and social belonging in relation to the cultural brokers who introduced Islamic art to the United States (e.g. missionaries, decorators, design theorists, immigrants who worked in the carpet business). I am currently completing my PhD in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Outside my editing and academic work, I write historical fiction based on archival "dead ends." 

 

Interested in working together? Get in touch! 

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