ScholarShape maintains a list of freelance academic editors and consultants as a service to the scholarly community.
NOTE: These service providers are not affiliated with ScholarShape, and ScholarShape makes no endorsement or recommendation as to their services. Please use your own due diligence and best judgement in hiring an editor or consultant for your project.
Academic Editors and Consultants
Nathan Allen Jung
Website: nathan-jung.com
Qualifications/ Experience: My work has helped clients publish monographs at presses including Harvard University Press, Wesleyan University Press, and Routledge Press.
Service and Rates: My services include developmental editing, substantive editing, line/copy-editing, proofreading, and indexing for clients ranging from graduate students to full professors.
My rates vary by project but you can assume 10.00/per page of substantive edits as a baseline.
Deidra Jackson
Website: TBD
Qualifications/ Experience: I hold a PhD in Higher Education and a Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation. More than 10 years’ experience as an academic copy editor and academic communications specialist; former news editor and journalist. Currently, a university writing professor and writing center director, and a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed. Creator of Editing & Writing Professionals, LLC.
Service and Rates: Services: editing, writing (non-fiction, academic and other), proofreading, concept building, brainstorming
Rates: $50-$60/hour for most copyediting and proofreading, ranging from basic to developmental; project flat rates for freelance writing, emergency/quick turnaround editing and writing and other services.
Patrick Maley
Website: None.
Qualifications/ Experience: On the editorial board of two academic journals; writer of a scholarly monograph, seven journal articles, and several review essays; writer of several hundred journalistic performance reviews.
Service and Rates: Editing of scholarly and related material. Rates negotiable.
Anne Freeland
Website: http://laic.columbia.edu/author/6462692233/
Qualifications/ Experience: I hold a PhD from Columbia University (2017) and a Professional Certificate in Editing and Publishing from New York University (2009). I am currently Lead Copyeditor at the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, formerly Editorial Assistant at Revista Hispánica Moderna. I also do Spanish–English translation. Contact Anne for a list of projects edited and translated.
Service and Rates: Spanish–English translation: $0.10/word. Academic editing: $0.03/word
Lisa Munro
Website: lisamunro.net
Qualifications/ Experience: PhD/History of Modern Latin America
Academic editing for scholars in the humanities, particular expertise in style correction.
Extensive experience with ESL writers.
Service and Rates: Online writing retreats monthly, writing support, academic editing. Prices vary by services but current academics editing rates at $100/hour.
Diana ben-Aaron
Website: studioacamedia.com
Qualifications/ Experience: PhD in English linguistics from University of Helsinki. Experienced academic copy editor who has worked on manuscripts in social science, technical and business disciplines. Former reporter for Bloomberg. Skilled in consistency checking and coaching writers who are unsure of grammar or who are multilingual. I also do Finnish-English translation.
Service and Rates: £20-40 / $25-50 per 1000 words, depending on degree of editing needed. I can do a sample first to evaluate editing needs.
Esmé Shirlow
Website: https://law.anu.edu.au/people/esme-shirlow
Qualifications/ Experience: I am on the editorial board of two academic journals and also an editor on a multi-author blog platform; an author of a forthcoming scholarly monograph in a top university press; and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as policy reports and blog posts. I also act as a peer reviewer for various journals and on book proposals, and have six years' experience writing government policy and advisory briefs.
Service and Rates: Academic editing and proofreading; USD 90/hour or whole-project rates on request.
Leanne Powner
Qualifications/ Experience: I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan and work primarily in that area and adjacent fields (international relations, public policy, history, sociology, etc.). This lets me help you edit for substance as well as more mundane issues such as structure and grammar.
Service and Rates: FACULTY: Developmental editing (with unlimited reads & regular consultations): starting at $9/pg, 200 pg minimum
Substantive editing (content as well as style/structure): $7/pg
Copyediting only (style & punctuation): $4/pg; bibliography extra. Additional services include academic coaching and accountability coaching
GRAD STUDENTS: Copyediting services only: $3/pg; bibliography extra. Additional services include Dissertation 1-on-1 coaching, small group coaching, and more
Andrew Hodges
Website: https://andrewjohnhodges.com/
Qualifications/ Experience: Academic monographs edited/translated for a variety of publishers, including Routledge, Berghahn, Brill, Palgrave Macmillan. Author of over 20 academic articles in internationally renowned journals and of a monograph on football fan activism. University of Manchester, PhD in Social Anthropology (2013). Clare College, University of Cambridge, BA (hons) Natural Sciences: 2.1. (Mathematics, Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science) (2005). Goethe C2 German (July 2019). C2 Croatian–English for legal interpreting & translation exam: Distinction. SfEP/CIEP courses completed: Proofreading 1, Copyediting 1, Editing in Word, References. Please take a look at my portfolio for more information.
Service and Rates: Standard rates per 1000 words:
ESL copyediting: £ 20–30 (rate depends on the source text)
Copyediting: £ 10–15 (rate depends on the source text)
Translation (Croatian/German–English): £ 100
Developmental editing: £ 35 per hour
Tanya Mykhaylychenko
Website: https://tm-editorial.com/
Qualifications/ Experience: I provide professional resume/CV writing services for academics, freelancers, and all other industries and career levels. I also copyedit academic texts in the humanities and write/edit for businesses.
My professional background is in teaching writing courses at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and TÉLUQ University in Montreal, Quebec. I have a Master of Arts in English from Colorado State University (2009) and copyediting training from Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada (2017).
Among my recent projects, I translated a substantial archive of oral history interviews from the Ukrainian into English for a monograph in ethnography for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.
Service and Rates: CV/Resume writing: $175-$575 depending on career level. Editing: $45-70/1,000 words.
Michelle Dionne Thompson
Info coming soon.
Max Herriman
Info coming soon.