R Volpe Editorial

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A sketch of bookshelves and papers on a table, drawn in dark brown and white chalk on beige-colored paper
A sketch of bookshelves and papers on a table, drawn in dark brown and white chalk on beige-colored paper

My Projects

Fanned pages of an open book. Credit Olga Tutunaru/Unsplash

I’ve managed publications in many subject areas in a variety of formats. I took projects from manuscript submission through peer review, editorial review, prepress production, marketing, and distribution, working collaboratively with authors, contributors, curators, and other stakeholders. I provided developmental editing, line editing, cover and page design, image editing, and rights management, as well as writing and art direction. This experience informs my editorial services.

Here are a few of the publications I’ve edited and produced. Download my resume here for details on these and other selected projects.

Book cover with light blue background showing Native American men and women in traditional clothing holding hands and dancing in a circle on a grassy area
Book cover with painting of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur in a Jurassic forest environment with other prehistoric animals

Above left: Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples: What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us about Their Communities and Cultures, by Lucianne Lavin, edited by Rosemary Volpe. Yale University Press/Yale Peabody Museum co-publication, 2013.

Above right: The Age of Reptiles: The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger’s Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale, 2nd ed., with poster, edited by Rosemary Volpe. Yale Peabody Museum, 2008.

Dark brown book cover with photograph of a round reddish clay tablet with deep lines and wedge-shaped marks
Black book cover with gold lettered vertical title and black and gold samurai helmet with many spikes

Above left: Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection, edited by Agnete W. Lassen, Eckart Frahm, and Klaus Wagensonner. Exhibition catalogue, Yale Peabody Museum, 2019.

Above right: Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace, by Fabian Drixler, William D. Fleming, and Robert George Wheeler. Exhibition catalogue, Yale Peabody Museum, 2015.

Book cover with black-and-white drawing of a flying fish on a light green background with beige across the top and bottom
Blue-toned cover with the title and contents on the left and many illustrations of fishes lined up vertically along the right side

Above left: Order Beloniformes: Needlefishes, Sauries, Halfbeaks, and Flyingfishes, by Bruce B. Collette, Katherine E. Bemis, Nicolay V. Parin, and Ilia B. Shakhovskoy. Fishes of the Western North Atlantic Part 10, Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University, 2019.

Above right: Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, biannual print and online academic journal.

A maroon-toned book cover with title at the top above a photograph of the handle of a metal knife with a reclining human figure
Green-toned book cover with the title at the top above a photograph of thick vegetation at the edge of a rectangular pit revealing a stone wall with two doorways

Above left: The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu: Metal Artifacts, edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar, with contributions by Robert B. Gordon and Bruce D. Owen. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 2011.

Above right: Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru, by Yuichi Matsumoto. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 2020.

Blue-toned book cover with title at the top above a photograph of a grassy landscape with trees, and mountains in the distance.
Yellow-toned book cover with title at the top above a photograph of men excavating at the bottom of a deep room with brick walls, and a man looking down from above.

Above left: Continuity and Authority on the Mongolian Steppe: The Egiin Gol Survey 1997–2002, by Joshua Wright, William Honeychurch, and Chunag Amartuvshin. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 2023.

Above right: The Search for Takrur: Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance along the Middle Senegal Valley, edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Susan Keech McIntosh, and Hamady Bocoum. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 2016.

A green-toned book cover with title at top above a photograph of a staircase excavated in a hillside below a row of trees, with misty mountains in the background
Blue-toned book cover with title above a photograph of man in a grassy landscape with terraced fields and small trees in the background

Above left: Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru: Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C., edited by Richard L. Burger, Lucy C. Salazar, and Yuji Seki. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 2020.

Above right: Development of Complex Societies in Southeastern Shandong, China: Settlement Patterns from the Neolithic to the Han Period, by Hui Fang, Anne P. Underhill, Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas, Fengshi Luan, and Haiguang Yu. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 2024.