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Gail Naron Chalew

Gail Naron Chalew - Editor Tick

New Orleans, United States

Editing of academic works, reports, and dissertations, with a focus on the social sciences, Jewish studies, humanities, and law

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Overview

An editor and proofreader of academic manuscripts since 1989, I bring organization and coherence to these materials to enhance their readability and comprehension. I am particularly skilled in working with non-native English speakers. I specialize in substantive editing and proofreading works in the social sciences, Jewish studies, humanities, and law.

Education
Vassar College, BA with honors
University of Maryland School of Social Work, MSW
Baltimore Hebrew University, MA in Jewish Studies

Member of the Editorial Freelancers Association since 2010.

Recent Client List
Brookings Institution
Cambridge University Press
Harvard East Asian Center
Indiana University Press
Temple University Press
University of Hawa`ii Press

Services
Developmental Editing
Copy Editing
Proofreading
Non-Fiction
Business & Management
Economics
History
Law
Politics & Current Affairs
Psychology
Religion & Spirituality
Social & Behavioral Sciences

Work experience

Freelance copyeditor and proofreader

Aptara, Westchester Publishing Services
December, 1995 – Present (over 23 years)

Editor, Journal of Jewish Communal Service

Jewish Communal Service Association
August, 1989 – October, 2015 (about 26 years)

Editor of a quarterly professional journal designed to highlight best practices and share ideas and concepts

Portfolio (9 selected works)

JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War

JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War

Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kennedy was also consumed by a war that has escaped history's a... read more

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But during the same week that the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kennedy was also consumed by a war that has escaped history's a... read more

The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

This first volume to analyze the science of meetings offers a unique perspective on an integral part of contemporary work life. More than just a tool for improving individual and organizational effectiveness and well-being, meetings provide a window into the very essence of organizations and employees' experiences with the organization. The average employee attends at least three meetings per ... read more

This first volume to analyze the science of meetings offers a unique perspective on an integral part of contemporary work life. More than just a tool for improving individual and organizational effectiveness and well-being, meetings provide a window into the very essence of organizations and employees' experiences with the organization. The average employee attends at least three meetings per ... read more

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnational exchanges that occurred in Soviet-structured spaces - from clandestine schools for training international revolutionaries in Moscow to the International Brigades in Spain - the book uncovers complex webs of interaction, at once personal and po... read more

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnational exchanges that occurred in Soviet-structured spaces - from clandestine schools for training international revolutionaries in Moscow to the International Brigades in Spain - the book uncovers complex webs of interaction, at once personal and po... read more

Twilight Policing: Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa Twilight Policing: Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa

Twilight Policing: Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa

Dr. Tessa G. Diphoorn

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers—a specific type of private security officer—and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how th... read more

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers—a specific type of private security officer—and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how th... read more

Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire: 1st to 4th Centuries CE Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire: 1st to 4th Centuries CE

Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire: 1st to 4th Centuries CE

Lynne C. Lancaster

This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terracotta elements in various forms, such as regular flat bricks, hollow voussoirs, vaulting tubes, and armchair voussoirs. Each one is traced geographically via GIS mapping, the results of which are a... read more

This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terracotta elements in various forms, such as regular flat bricks, hollow voussoirs, vaulting tubes, and armchair voussoirs. Each one is traced geographically via GIS mapping, the results of which are a... read more

Jonah in the Shadows of Eden (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature) Jonah in the Shadows of Eden (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)

Jonah in the Shadows of Eden (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)

Yitzhak Berger

Yitzhak Berger advances a distinctive and markedly original interpretation of the biblical book of Jonah that resolves many of the ambiguities in the text. Berger contends that the Jonah text pulls from many inner-biblical connections, especially ones relating to the Garden of Eden. These connections provide a foundation for Berger’s reading of the story, which attributes multiple layers of me... read more

Yitzhak Berger advances a distinctive and markedly original interpretation of the biblical book of Jonah that resolves many of the ambiguities in the text. Berger contends that the Jonah text pulls from many inner-biblical connections, especially ones relating to the Garden of Eden. These connections provide a foundation for Berger’s reading of the story, which attributes multiple layers of me... read more

The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience

The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience

Neuroscientific research on emotion has developed dramatically over the past decade. The cognitive neuroscience of human emotion, which has emerged as the new and thriving area of "affective neuroscience," is rapidly rendering existing overviews of the field obsolete. This handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative survey of knowledge and topics investigated in this cutti... read more

Neuroscientific research on emotion has developed dramatically over the past decade. The cognitive neuroscience of human emotion, which has emerged as the new and thriving area of "affective neuroscience," is rapidly rendering existing overviews of the field obsolete. This handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative survey of knowledge and topics investigated in this cutti... read more

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger

The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger

Carlo Caduff

In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. If urgent steps were not taken immediately, the pandemic could shut down the economy and “trigger a reaction that will change the world overnight.” The Pandemic Perhaps explores ho... read more

In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. If urgent steps were not taken immediately, the pandemic could shut down the economy and “trigger a reaction that will change the world overnight.” The Pandemic Perhaps explores ho... read more

Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture

Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture

Thomas R. H. Havens

Japanese have been fervid long-distance runners for many centuries. Today, on a per capita basis, at least as many Japanese residents complete marathons each year as in the United States or any other country. Marathon Japan is the first comprehensive English-language chronicle of the history of this important part of Japanese sports culture. It traces the development of distance racing beginni... read more

Japanese have been fervid long-distance runners for many centuries. Today, on a per capita basis, at least as many Japanese residents complete marathons each year as in the United States or any other country. Marathon Japan is the first comprehensive English-language chronicle of the history of this important part of Japanese sports culture. It traces the development of distance racing beginni... read more

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