Julia Smith
Location: Edinburgh
Membership Grade: Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
I am a freelance indexer alongside my work as a scholar of print and book history. I have a wide interest in all aspects of the medieval and early modern periods of history, art, and architecture.
My doctoral thesis focused on single-leaf prints and illustrated printed books from Renaissance Nuremberg. I have adapted the thesis into two forthcoming monographs. I have also published my work on sixteenth-century illustrated Luther Bibles.
I also have an interest in the art and history of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, having studied this in my Honours and MA studies.
I have also studied and worked in the education sector. I have a Diploma of Education and worked as a History teacher in secondary school, and as an Academic Skills lecturer in higher education.
I have experience indexing academic monographs in early modern studies, and am happy to index edited volumes and trade books on any aspect of art, architecture, and history.
Subjects
I studied art history to doctoral level, and have published my own research on Renaissance German printmaking. At undergraduate level, I studied all aspects of art history from antiquity to the twentieth century.
I am happy to index trade books on any aspect of art history, and academic books on medieval and early modern European art.
I have studied classical and early modern architecture, and have previously indexed books on German and Italian Renaissance architecture.
In my undergraduate degree, I studied ancient, medieval, and modern history, and can index trade books on any historical subject. I am also a subject specialist in early modern book history, and can index academic monographs on any historical subject from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
I have a postgraduate diploma in Education, and have taught at both secondary and higher education level. I can index books on education theory and practice, as well as study guides for students.
Related qualifications
MA Dutch Golden Age (University College London)
PhD in Art History (University of Edinburgh)
DipEd in Secondary Education (University of New South Wales)
Other skills
Recent indexes include
The Palladian House Between Country and City, Cambridge University Press, 2025
Elizabeth J. Petcu, The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Clients Include
Cambridge University Press
Tools
SKY INDEX
