Rosemary Volpe

★★★★★

Rosemary is an amazing second pair of eyes. She is thorough, careful, and precise in both proofreading and copyediting. She is especially good at the intricacies of exhibition text—keeping an eye out for consistency across text panels, object labels, and copy for interactives. 

—Susan Gail Johnson, SGJ Consulting LLC

★★★★★

Having worked with many editors in my career, I can put Rosemary Volpe in the elevated class of editors who are thorough and consistent while also being deeply respectful of the project’s voice and goals. She understands the ecosystem in which she’s working and adapts flexibly, editing with a lighter or heavier hand as the situation dictates.

In our museum renovation, she and I seamlessly collaborated on a style guide, and she was instrumental in bringing clarity and cohesion to a suite of exhibitions featuring a wide range of voices and themes. For example, we aimed to privilege the active voice and the “people” part of a story, and she recast many sentences from those contributors who were accustomed to writing academic prose. 

Rosemary is an efficient editor who manages her time well to keep a project moving, and in addition to making everything more polished, she’s a pleasure to work with.

—Kailen Rogers, Associate Director, Exhibitions, Yale Peabody Museum

★★★★★

Rosemary Volpe and I collaborated for almost 15 years when the Yale Peabody Museum Publications Office and Yale University Press became partners for distribution and co-publication of exhibition catalogues and reference and scholarly books.

Examples include Lucianne Lavin’s Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples; Richard Conniff’s House of Lost Worlds; David Skelly and Thomas Near’s Exploration and Discovery: Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; and the serial publications Yale University Publications in Anthropology and the Sears Foundation Fishes of the Western North Atlantic.

In her role as publications manager, she was capable, knowledgeable, and very skilled at managing workflows and suppliers, freelance editors, proofreaders, and indexers. She is furthermore detailed-oriented and qualified as a copy and developmental editor and proofreader.

I highly recommend her for projects that originate in museum and related scholarly publishing programs.

—Jean Thomson Black, Senior Executive Editor for Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Medicine, Yale University Press (retired)

★★★★★

I’ve worked with Rosemary as a colleague, and most recently as a supervisor, for many years on projects at all levels of the Peabody’s mission, from publishing collections research, to developing interpretive content, to providing educational outreach to students and visitors. In her approach she was a forward-thinking and innovative manager and editor, understanding, and being ahead of, trends in academic publishing.

With Rosemary’s ability to assess content for a wide range of platforms, she has consistently provided careful, reliable, and thoughtful museum-wide editorial and production support. She keeps the needs of the audience in mind and is a collaborator who respects the author’s voice. I highly recommend her for any editorial work in science communications.

—Susan H. Butts, Ph.D., Director of Collections and Research, Yale Peabody Museum