Expert indexing by Paula C. Durbin-Westby. I create indexes for scholarly and trade books and journals, and government and private industry documents.

Summary:

• I create professional indexes according to your specifications
• Expertise in concepts and terminology: I am both a generalist and a specialist, and love to index interdisciplinary thought in any discipline. Some of the areas in which I have particular expertise, after more than twenty years as an indexer, include: art history and artworks; Asian studies; Black studies and thought; colonial and postcolonial studies; cultural studies; disability studies; environmental studies; feminist/gender/sexuality studies; film, media, and digital technology; history; health sciences; international relations and political science; Latin American studies and thought; literary criticism; musicology and music theory; philosophy; psychology/psychiatry; queer studies; rhetoric and composition; sociology

• Ability to work effectively with diverse authors and publishers
• Accurate and nuanced indexing of subject matter
• Favorable comments by indexers and authors
• References and sample indexes available on request
• Indexing of approximately 60 titles per year

Education:

• Bachelor of Music, University of Richmond, Virginia. Summa cum laude.
• Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of Maryland College Park. Magna cum laude.

Indexing Experience:

Indexer, 1993–present:

• Judge: ASI–H.W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing, 2006
• Panelist: Scholarly Indexing at ASI Annual Convention, 2000
• Membership in American Society of Indexers, 1993-2011, 2014
• Index approximately 60 titles per year
• Production of high-quality indexes

Management duties, 1986–1988. Twin Oaks Indexing:
• Training indexers
• Overseeing indexing projects
• Management of business

Indexer, 1984–1988. Twin Oaks Indexing:
• Indexed books on a wide variety of subjects, including literary criticism,
political science, international relations, general trade books.