Patti Phillips, Indexer and Editor

I specialize in scholarly texts in the social sciences and humanities and trade non-fiction. I completed professional indexing training at Toronto Metropolitan University and bring more than 15 years’ editorial experience as a freelancer, board member for an academic journal, author, researcher, and instructor. I received a PhD in sociology from York University, with a thesis on postwar adoption and the making of scientific social work.  My experience as an interdisciplinary researcher serves as a guide when I create an index.

I believe a good index is an invitation to readers and strive to make the index accessible to a range of readers. My interdisciplinary interests and training include sociology, social history, feminist and cultural studies of science, science and technology studies, education, gender and women’s studies, health and critical disability studies, and criminology.

Recent books I have indexed:

Acker, Sandra, Oili-Helena Ylijoki and Michelle K. McGinn, eds., The Social Production of Research: Perspectives on Funding and Gender. Routledge, 2024.

Douglas, Patty, Unmothering Autism: Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care. University of British Columbia Press, 2025.

Fogel, Curtis and Andrea Quinlan, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport. University of British Columbia Press, 2023.

Frank, Leslie, Out of Milk: Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation. University of British Columbia Press, 2020.

Keith, Margaret M. and James T. Brophy, eds., Code White: Sounding the Alarm on Violence Against Health Care Workers. Between the Lines Press, 2021.

Kern, Leslie, Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies. Between the Lines Press, 2022.

Kislowicz, Howard, Kerri A. Froc, and Richard Mood, eds., Canada’s Surprising Constitution: Unexpected Interpretations of the Constitution Act, 1982. University of British Columbia, 2024.

Liinamaa, Saara, The New Spirit of Creativity: Work, Compromise, and the Art and Design University. University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Milligan, Ian, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024

Olive, Andrea and Brendan Boyd, eds., Provincial Policy Laboratories: Policy Diffusion and Transfer in Canada’s Federal System. University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Patton, Lori, Ishwanzya D. Rivers, Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton, and Joi D. Lewis, eds., Reauthoring Savage Inequalities: Narratives of Community Cultural Wealth in Urban Educational Environments. SUNY Press, 2023.

Silva, Derek and Liam Kennedy, eds., Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport. University of British Columbia Press, 2022.

Watson, Amanda, The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety. University of British Columbia Press, 2020.