CV | Mark Stoneman

Freelance Editor and Translator, since 2020
Editor, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2010–2020
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Mason University, 2006–2017
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, 2000–2009
Teacher of English for Speakers of Other Languages in Munich, Augsburg, and Washington, DC, 1990–2010

Georgetown University, PhD
- Dissertation: “Wilhelm Groener, Officering, and the Schlieffen Plan” (2006)
- Comprehensive exams: Modern Germany, Modern France, Great Britain, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union
University of Augsburg, MA
- Thesis: “The Bavarian Army and French Civilians in the War of 1870–71” (1994)
- Exams: Modern History, Early Modern History, Political Science
Dartmouth College, AB
- Major: History
- Year abroad in Germany

Copyediting, line-editing, proofreading, big-picture reading to offer constructive criticism, developmental editing
Copywriting
Understanding texts in context (historical, reading, publishing); making connections across disparate subjects
Identifying and using dictionary and other context-appropriate resources for a particular project
Managing multi-authored projects, assessing and offering advice about copyright and publisher requirements
Seeing connections between chapters in an edited volume, articles in a special journal issue, and posts on an academic blog; working with authors to highlight these connections in order to give heterogeneous works more cohesion
Translation of contemporary and historical texts
Editing translations
Reading knowledge of French with dictionary
Word, Adobe Reader, and other assorted desktop and online tools for editing, submitting corrected page proofs, bibliographies, and so on

Scholarly communication, academic blogging, social media engagement outside siloed platforms
Web Development: Wordpress, Omeka, HTML, CSS, and Markdown

Teaching history survey courses and seminars to people with varying levels of prior experience and differing degrees of interest, from the required survey course to upper-level and graduate courses
- Taught subject matter, historical thinking, critical reading, source analysis, writing, and research in varying proportions, depending on the class
- Research, depending on the class, including for surveys of secondary literature, of available primary sources, for Wikipedia pages (when Wikipedia was young), and for research papers
- Mixed format courses (lectures and discussions); seminars
Teaching English to working adults of varying ages and educational and linguistic backgrounds, always striving to provide a framework in which they used the language more than their teacher did

Last updated: October 30, 2024