Selected Clients and Projects


Facts on File
Author of two 400-page reference books:
  • Terrorism and Global Development (2007)
  • Militarization of Space (2011)

Classroom Ready
Contributed articles to monthly classroom packets on current events for middle- and high-school audiences. Wrote articles on more than 50 current events topics, ranging from the global economic crisis to Obama administration policies, Tibet, Libya, Japanese elections, Olympic Games, baseball, and emerging technology.

Global Development Network
Contract editor for annual reports, financial statements, grant RFPs, and outreach materials. Contract editor and designer for 10+ volumes in the GDN/Edward Elgar book series on global economic development. Coordinated revisions and page proof reviews with authors from more than 40 countries. Designed and created camera-ready copy for all books using InDesign, Intaglio, and MathType.

University Press of Kansas
Freelance copyeditor for three books, including reorganizing and rewording for clarity, creating a style sheet for consistent transliteration of Russian names and phrases, and verifying citations according to both CMS 15 and Bluebook styles.
  • Dale R. Herspring, The Kremlin and the High Command: Presidential Impact on the Russian Military from Gorbachev to Putin (2006, a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title)
  • Dale R. Herspring, Rumsfeld’s Wars: The Arrogance of Power (2008)
  • Louis Fisher, The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms (2008)

CQ Press
Contributing writer for chapter on terrorism for World At Risk, 2nd ed. (2009).

Sage Publications
Contributing writer for multiple entries in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism, 2nd ed. (2011).

Gale/Macmillan Reference
  • Senior Associate Editor, Photo Editor, and Contributing Writer for Encyclopedia of Russian History, 4 vol. (2003). Named “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice magazine and “Outstanding Reference Source” by the American Library Association
  • Contributing writer for the Gale Encyclopedia of World History: Governments (2008)
  • Contributing writer for Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities (2005)


National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Contract managing editor of Problems of Post-Communism, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal analyzing political, economic, ethnic, social, and military events in the former Soviet region, Asia, and Latin America.

Jamestown Foundation
Contract managing editor of 868 issues of Eurasia Daily Monitor, a daily 3,000-word e-newsletter analyzing breaking political, economic, ethnic, social, and military events in the former Soviet region; most authors not native speakers of English.