Experience

Bloomberg Businessweek

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Copyeditor

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Self-employed

• New York City Metropolitan Area

• Editor

  • Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

  I've taken on a variety of clients, from novelists to university libraries, in editing and editorial consulting. I'm also a researcher for a prestige TV show. I've taken on a variety of clients, from novelists to university libraries, in editing and editorial consulting. I'm also a researcher for a prestige TV show.



JSTOR

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Editor

  • Jan 2020 - Nov 2021

  As Associate Editor at JSTOR Daily—a digital magazine promoting scholarship available on the nonprofit academic database JSTOR—I conceived, assigned, and edited 10 short- and long-form general-interest articles per week. My content specialties included history, politics, literature, pop culture, art and art history, classics and archaeology, science, history of science, environment and sustainability, and linguistics. I also conceived and wrote pieces on topics such as camp culture, Goth rock, Joan of Arc, the history of psychology, and Wonder Bread. Managing a roster of 10 regular freelance journalists and columnists, I recruited and trained new writers, while exceeding internal DEI goals for diversifying our writer pool. I also managed the magazine’s official accounts for Twitter (44.5K followers) and Facebook (81.1K followers). Show less



American Historical Association

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor, Perspectives on History

  • Jun 2015 - Nov 2019

  At the AHA, the nation's oldest professional organization of historians, I was editor of Perspectives on History, the association's renowned magazine (print and digital). I conceived, assigned, and edited reported pieces, data visualizations, first-person essays, and opinion columns. Because our content was licensed under Creative Commons, outlets such as Smithsonian, Slate, and WBEZ republished several of our articles. Under my editorship, the magazine’s moribund News section got a new lease on life, as I trained staff members to pitch ideas, report, and fact-check 1,500-word articles. I supervised the merger of two magazine websites to create a single source of content, and I worked with vendors on implementing a new CSS and transferring content to a new CMS. My journalism included an enterprising story on the auction of the photo archive of Johnson Publishing Co. (Ebony, Jet), which broke national news and was picked up by publications and TV news nationwide. Over the four years I was editor, Perspectives grew in average monthly unique pageviews by 39 percent. I established a digital-first editorial workflow and oversaw online publication schedule, with daily (instead of monthly) content updates. Finally, I planned the annual budget, securing increases for freelancer fees, research, and travel. Show less



University of Southern California

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2015

  In the USC Department of History, I researched and completed a book proposal, for which I was awarded an advance contract from the University of Chicago Press in 2015. My teaching accomplishments included designing and teaching an advanced undergraduate seminar, "American Girlhood in the Twentieth Century," as well as lecture courses in American gender history and LGBT history. The Department of Gender Studies invited me to speak in a lecture series in 2013, as did the Department of History in 2015. Show less



Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Managing Editor, International Labor and Working-Class History

  • Jul 2009 - Jun 2011

  At this quarterly academic journal, I tracked manuscripts from solicitation/submission to publication, working with authors at every stage and signing off on final proofs. Managing the journal's budget, I also hired, trained, and supervised an assistant managing editor and a student intern in fact-checking, composing correspondence, and interacting with academics on the journal's board of editors. Other responsibilities included serving as liaison to our marketing and production representatives at Oxford University Press and fact-checking manuscripts. This position was a competitive appointment offered to a graduate student applicant from any of the university's departments, not only history. I left the journal when I received a prestigious dissertation-completion grant from the Mellon Foundation. Show less



CosmoGIRL!

• Greater New York City Area

• Copy Chief

  • Feb 2004 - Aug 2005