Jacqueline Pitchford
Location: Leiwen
Membership Grade: Professional Member
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General Experience
‘A good index sheds light on an illuminating book’
I am a freelance professional indexer with over 15 years of experience in book indexing and a varied background in library development, knowledge management and desk research with leading international consultancy firms.
Though I can index any publication aimed at a general audience, my main focus is on (semi)scientific publications in the areas of social sciences in general, religion, history, art, international relations, human rights, and law & legislation.
My strength is in delivering thorough indexes highlighting a publication’s core subjects and their contexts whilst at the same time keeping an eye for detail. An approach which is appreciated by many authors and readers.
I work from my home office based in Leiwen, a picturesque wine village along the German Mosel river and an inspirational place to work from.
My client base consists of renowned international publishers, universities and individual authors. I write indexes in English, Dutch and German.
Please visit my website www.indexnthings.com for a complete overview of projects.
In my spare time I enjoy painting, making wine-themed art & deco, playing piano, wining & dining, boating, hiking, and Nordic walking.
Subjects
See ‘History (All areas) and www.indexnthings.com
See ‘History (All areas)’ and www.indexnthings.com
Indexes to academic textbooks and loose-leave periodicals/yearbooks in the areas of trade, mergers & acquisitions, cartels, outsourcing, and economic legislation.
I have indexed various Dutch loose-leave periodicals/yearbooks on environmental and spatial planning.
I wrote indexes to several academic textbooks on Balkan history, religious history, Cold War history, art history and archeology.
I have indexed various academic textbooks and loose-leave periodicals/yearbooks in the areas of human and minority rights, international criminal law, environmental law, EU law, and the International Criminal Court.
Indexes for academic textbooks on subjects such as nationalism, migration, minority rights, and regional order.
Indexes for academic textbooks on subjects such as nationalism, migration, minority rights, and regional order.
Indexes for several academic textbooks on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and religious themes and issues.
I have done indexes to many books of Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800
I have indexed several academic textbooks in various disciplines of the social sciences. See www.indexnthings.com.
Related qualifications
Training in Indexing (Society of Indexers)
Recent indexes include
Claire Farago, The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della Pittura : With a Scholarly Edition of the Italian Editio Princeps (1651) and an Annotated English Translation, Brill, 2018
Matthew Gordon, The Works of Ibn Wādih al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols): An English Translation, Brill, 2017
Hugh Feiss, A Companion to the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris, Brill, 2017
Clients Include
Brill (Netherlands)
Cambridge University Press
Claeys & Casteels Publishing (Netherlands)
Intersentia (Belgium)
Kluwer (Netherlands)
Mohr Siebeck (Germany)
Palgrave Macmillan (UK)
Routledge (United Kingdom)
SDU (Netherlands)
Taylor & Francis (United Kingdom)
various universities worldwide
Special Publication Type
I mainly index academic textbooks, most of them being multi-author books.
I have participated in a team-project indexing the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill). In 2011, this project won the Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index.
I have made indexes for several Dutch loose-leave directories/yearbooks in the areas of law and legislation, environmental and spatial planning, archeology, and preservation of monuments (Kluwer, SDU).
Some large projects include:
Stewart, Charles C. (ed.) 2015, The Writings of Mauritania and the Western Sahara (2054 pp)
Gordon, Matthew (ed.) 2017, The Works of Ibn Wādih al-Yaʿqūbī (3 vols): An English Translation (1240 pp)
Farago, Claire 2018, The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della Pittura: With a Scholarly Edition of the Italian Editio Princeps (1651) and an Annotated English Translation (1087 pp)
I also participated in a team-project indexing the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill). In 2011, this project won the Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index.
Tools
MACREX
