Areas of expertise:

HISTORY
SOCIAL SCIENCES
PUBLIC HEALTH
CENTRAL EUROPE
AUSTRIA
GERMANY
ARTS



**Native speaker of German and American English

**Fluent in French and Spanish

*French: passed oral examinations in French in Gymnasium in Vienna, Austria; scored 730 out of 800 on SATs; studied francophone literature in college

*Spanish: studied in Gymnasium in Vienna, Austria for 3 years; studied literature in college; use Spanish on a daily basis in day job

**Working knowledge of Icelandic (studied at University of Vienna as an auditor for 5 years)

**Reading knowledge of Latin (studied in Gymnasium in Vienna, Austria for 6 years: Caesar, Cicero, Tacitus, Catullus, Vergil, Ovid); scored 710 out of 800 on SATs

**also studied Russian, Modern Hebrew and Turkish.

**reading knowledge of Italian, Portuguese, Yiddish, Norwegian and Dutch.


Some projects that I worked on:

Translation of articles on Austrian contemporary history from German to English.
Translation of CD-Rom interactive presentation on the persecution of Austrian Jewry 1938-1945 from German into English.

Subtitles of Icelandic saga movie (Utlaginn) into English. This project was a collaboration with a Swedish speaker. Movie soundtrack was in Icelandic and supported by Danish subtitles. Project is available at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.

Translation of portions of Reconstructionist prayerbook from English into German.