February 7, 2012

Resume of Lee A. Young, The ThesisEditor


Education:                                                                                               

• BA, Physics and Philosophy, Yale University

• PhD, Physics, Harvard University

 Copyediting experience (25 years):

          • 67 scholarly or scientific books for Cambridge University Press (includes some proofreading) (see list of titles)

          • 23,746 pages of college textbooks (several in economics)

          • 262 journal articles by non-native writers of English

          • 39 articles for Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

          • 123 articles for the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

          • 12 articles for the Journal of the London Mathematical Society

          • 64 articles (in LaTeX) for Biometrika (Oxford University Press)

          • 23 articles/reviews for The Review of Politics (directly for CUP)

          • Serving as the copyeditor for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Johns Hopkins University Press) (13 articles)

          • Served as the copyeditor for the Journal of the History of Philosophy (Johns Hopkins University Press) (11 articles; book reviews)

          • 77 articles/reviews for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (directly for CUP)

           • 9 articles for the Physical Review (in LaTeX)

          • 8 PhD theses

          • High school mathematics textbooks

Subjects of experience in copyediting:

          • physics  • math  • astronomy  • geophysics  • engineering

          • chemistry  • biochemistry  • biology  • nutrition  • ornithology

          • economics  • history  • intellectual history  • classics  • Middle Ages

Familiarity with standard style guides:

            Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition

            APA Style Guide, 6th edition, 4th printing (earlier printings have errors!)

            ACS Style Guide, 3rd edition (American Chemical Society)

            Mathematics into Type (American Mathematical Society)

            CSE Manual

Professional Experience (36 years)

• Published articles in Physical Review, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal, and Applied Optics

          • Research in high-energy physics, re-entry physics, electrical engineering

Lee Adams Young

127 Kingfisher Lane

Mills River, NC 28759, USA

828-435-0525

leeayoung@morrisbb.net

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