Education

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — MLIS, 2012

• Ankara University, TÖMER Language Institute, Turkey — Summer 2011 (U.S. Department of State Critical Languages Scholarship Program)
  Turkish Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) score: Intermediate High

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign — BA, 2009
  Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences
  Major: International Studies; focus: Business Communication

• University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain — Spring 2009
  Study Abroad program
  
  

Professional Development

American Society for Indexing (ASI) Webinars

• Taxonomy Consulting • Indexing Biographies • Embedded Indexing • Indexes Locorum • Indexing Arabic Names • Current and Future Trends for Publishing and Indexing • Indexing Theology and Philosophy • Special Event: What’s in a Name? • Indexing Geographic Place-Names • Indexing Art Books • Biographical Metatopics • CINDEX Streamlining & Refining • Macros 3-Part Course

Courses & Certifications

• Certificate of Completion - ASI Training Course
  American Society for Indexing
  Issued: September 2022

• Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies
  Henry Stewart Events
  Issued: March 2024

Published Book Indexes

Created the Index and provided limited editorial feedback. Index previews may be available via Amazon.

• Saab, Bilal Y. “Rebuilding Arab Defense: US Security Cooperation in the Middle East,” Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2022

• Lippman, Thomas W. “Hero of the Crossing: How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World,” Potomac Books, Inc. 2016

• Alkalimat, Abdul, and Kate Williams, “Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González,” Library Juice Press. 2015

For a complete list of books I have indexed, please contact me or click the following links to see…

…a complete list of books indexed in 2022;

…a complete list of books indexed in 2023.

Articles & Papers

Authored articles:

• “Launching a Freelance Indexing Business: More to Do than You’d Think,” Key Words: Journal of the American Society for Indexing 30 no.2 (Summer 2022): 11, https://www.asindexing.org/key-words/.

  • Geared toward new indexers; describes the decision-making and process behind establishing a small business; and includes some resource links.

Authored & presented papers:

• BOBCATSSS Library Conferences

  • 2012 - Amsterdam: “Turkey - Access to Government Information - A Case Study” (p. 195-200)

    • Reviews Turkish progress in developing e-government from 1993 to [2012] by examining various efforts and factors which have played an important role in the process; examines several options that will aid Turkey in eliminating technical, cultural, and fiscal barriers in order to provide a greater number of its citizens with access to government information.

  • 2013 - Ankara: “Deferred Processing: A Case Study Involving the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Library Backlog at UIUC” (p. 23-27)

    • Examines the workflow of the Slavic collection backlog reduction project at the UIUC library, and some of the challenges faced when processing materials in different alphabets that may be several decades old and from uncommon publishers. Consideration is given to libraries' ethical obligation to provide information to users and the possibilities of involving digitization of materials as part of the backlog reduction workflow.
      
      

Affiliations

American Society for Indexing (ASI)

• Leader, History / Archaeology Special Interest Group (1/2022 - Present)

• Leader, SouthEast Chapter (11/2022 - Present)

ACES: The society for editing

Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)

Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)

Other Publications

Blog & Substack posts

Indexed & abstracted, declassified government documents published in Digital National Security Archive (DNSA); 2013 - 2019 (a ProQuest database)

• 2013: Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013 & The CIA Family Jewels.

• 2014: The United States and the Two Koreas (1969-2000) & Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden.

• 2015: Nuclear History II, 1969-1976.

• 2016: Kissinger Conversations: Supplement II,1969-1977 & The President's Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961–1969.

• 2017: Targeting Iraq, Part I: 1997-2004 & Cuba-United States Dialogue, 1959-2016.

• 2018: CIA Covert Operations III: From Kennedy to Nixon, 1961-1974 & Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991.

• 2019: Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part I: From Atoms for Peace to the NPT, 1954-1968 & Iran-U.S. Relations: 1977-Present.

Research and Resource Guides

• Oman Library at MEI

  • Guide to Resources relating to MEI’s Virtual Art Show: Lebanon Then & Now (Summer 2020)
    https://www.mei.edu/education/oman-library/resource-guides/Lebanon-Then-And-Now

  • Guide to Resources relating to MEI’s Art Exhibit: In This Moonless Black Night (Spring 2021)
    https://www.mei.edu/education/oman-library/resource-guides/Syrian-art-after-2011

  • Guide to Resources relating to Human Rights (Spring 2021) https://www.mei.edu/education/oman-library/resource-guides/iys-human-rights

  • Guide to Resources relating to MEI’s Climate Week Conference (Spring 2021)
    https://www.mei.edu/education/oman-library/resource-guides/climate-week-2021

  • More resource guides that I created or edited may be found, here: https://www.mei.edu/education/oman-library/resource-guides

• Slavic Reference Service (SRS)

  • Research Guide to Tajik Government Publications (September 2012)
    http://www.library.illinois.edu/ias/spx/slavicresearchguides/govpubs/tajikgovpubs/

  • Library Guide (LibGuide) on Chekhov — co-author; (February 2013)
    http://uiuc.libguides.com/chekhov

• LibGuide Projects for GSLIS coursework

  • Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. Government Information (Spring 2012)
    (Link no longer available)

  • Latin American Bibliography — contributing author (Summer 2012)
    http://uiuc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=361701&sid=2958592