Thesis and Dissertation Advisors -
Humanities

JAMES T. McDONOUGH JR.

JAMES T. McDONOUGH JR., Ph.D. is a thesis and dissertation writing consultant and editor. He helps students and young professionals plan research, organize it, evaluate the soundness of the argumentation, and write and rewrite the English until it is publishable. He also enjoys helping persons with Ph.D.s prepare their dissertation or other research for publication by university presses and trade publishers.

He has edited material translated from Greek and Latin. Subjects have included Roman history, Catholic schools, Jews and Gentiles in the ancient world, Martin Luther, World War II, the Bible, foreign phrases used in English contexts, and biographies. He has also edited a medical dictionary, a historical novel on the First Crusade, and encyclopedia articles.

Formatting expertise: Chicago Manual of Style, Turabian.

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CHRISTINE D. TOMEI
Humanities - Social Science - Cultural Studies

Scope: humanities, literature, modernism, cultural theory, linguistics, social sciences, history and culture of Russia, Serbia, Croatia.

CHRISTINE D. TOMEI has a Ph.D. from Brown University and is presently an Associate in the Slavic Seminar at Columbia University. She is a former full-time professor and recipient of multiple awards, including Fulbright and IREX. She has a published monograph in linguistics and literary theory and has contributed to intelligence in computational linguistics and linguistic theory. She is also editor of two other books, including the highly acclaimed, two-volume edition of Russian Women Writers (Garland: New York, 1999) which won a national book prize. She has published research in literature, cultural theory, folklore, modernism and women's studies. She taught international relations and comparative culture; also comparative literature, all levels of Russian language, beginning and intermediate Serbo-Croatian and translates from both languages. She also translates Italian and can read German, French and Dutch.

She has indexed scholarly publications including annotated indexes, has worked extensively in abstract writing, and has generated book-length camera-ready copy. Recently, she moved jobs to public administration and has finished coursework toward a Masters in Public Administration with a major in systems management. She has helped design and implement curriculum including research design.