Our Team

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll is an expert-ranked academic editor in economics and finance with more than a decade of editorial experience in research publishing.

Samantha graduated with an MSc in Comparative Politics (Latin America) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009 and began her career in the press and publications team the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London the following year, working on production of the Discussion Paper series and the content pipeline for the policy portal VoxEU.org. In 2012, Samantha moved to Colombia to serve as senior production editor in the Bogota office of the startup publishing house Freestone Publishing, producing country investment reports on the mining industry.

Samantha continued to work as a freelance academic editor with researchers around the world for the next half-decade in Colombia before accepting a position in 2017 as managing editor of ProMarket.org and senior editor at the Stigler Center for the Study of the State and the Economy at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In 2019, Samantha joined American Journal Experts, now a wholly owned subsidiary of SpringerNature, as an academic editor in economics and finance and was promoted to expert rank the following year.

In 2023, Samantha founded Standard Error Research Editors to focus on providing editorial support to her own clients in top departments around the Americas and Europe.

Amrit K. (Amy) Daniel received her JD from St. John's University School of Law, her MA from the New School of Social Research, and her BA from Columbia University. Amy's academic and professional experience spans health services, the social and biological sciences, as well as the law. She has been working as a freelance academic editor since 2016. Papers that she has edited have appeared in journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economics Journal: Macroeconomics. Prior to becoming an editor, she served as a healthcare liaison between medical contractors and the state of Washington, and she also practiced law at a top-twenty law firm in New York City. Amy is a registered attorney in the states of New York and Illinois.

Building on a career in academia and higher education, Ann Mason began working as an academic editor in 2020, supporting the scholarship of researchers and faculty worldwide.

After earning her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University, Ann lived and worked in Colombia for 30 years as professor and chair of the political science department of la Universidad de los Andes, executive director of the U.S.-Colombia Fulbright Commission, and founder of a consulting firm in the field of international higher education. Ann’s research on state authority and international security has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She has been awarded competitive research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Ann has also served on various university and education boards and has been recognized by the U.S. State Department and the government of Colombia for her work on behalf of U.S.-Colombia scientific collaboration.

In her current capacity as an expert academic editor, Ann has helped nearly 3,000 professors, graduate students, and researchers in over 20 countries achieve their research, publishing, and employment goals. Ann works mainly in the social sciences and humanities, economics and finance, business, law, and education.

Charles Joseph Del Dotto is an academic editor with over ten years of experience working with researchers around the world in policy analysis, economics, management, and the social sciences and humanities. With American Journal Experts, he edited over 5,300 manuscripts and was promoted to Academic Editor, Expert.

Charles received his undergraduate education at Princeton University, majoring in English and graduating cum laude in 1999. He then earned master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Duke University in 2002 and 2010, respectively. His teachers at Princeton and Duke included Daniel Kahneman (co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics), Deborah Prentice, Robert P. George, Maurizio Viroli, Fredric Jameson, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Toril Moi, and Thomas Pfau. Charles has presented work at venues such as the Modern Language Association of America, Shakespeare Association of America, and International Shaw Society, and he has published articles and reviews in four peer-reviewed academic journals. His long-term scholarly project is a monograph titled Shaw’s Late Style: Adorno, Aesthetics, and the Shavian Canon between the World Wars.

Kaitlyn (Kait) Sims is an applied microeconomist, writer, and editor who finished her PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW–Madison in 2022. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Microeconomics for Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Her research is at the intersection of public health, the economics of violence, and environmental health hazards. Broadly, she is interested in the ways that individuals cope with uncertainty and social turbulence, including housing insecurity, domestic violence, and poverty. Kait has experience using data in all scales, including original data collection, "big" data and spatial analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviews. Her work has been published in such venues as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health, Punishment & Society, and Critical Social Policy.

Morgan Galloway graduated from Yale University with a PhD in Political Science in 2023. Her substantive focus is on community-led memorialization projects following episodes of state violence and how they serve as sites of political participation. Methodologically, she specializes in participatory and ethnographic approaches and appreciates the importance of choosing the right method for the research question at hand. During her doctoral work, Morgan served as a graduate writing fellow and edited, revised, and coached writers at various stages of their academic career and across disciplines. Since finishing her PhD, she has continued as a freelance academic editor and has overseen projects related to migration, justice studies, psychiatry, and environmental studies, among others. Her favorite part of being an academic editor is helping disentangle complicated drafts into digestible and compelling final pieces that can be understood across disciplines.

Olivier Simard-Casanova is a French economist with a long experience with academia, science communication, and R.

After receiving a License in Economics and Sociology from the University of Toulouse 1 – Capitole, he received a Master’s in Macroeconomics and European Policies from the University of Strasbourg in 2012.

In 2015, while doing research in organizational economics at the University of Strasbourg and at the University of Lorraine, Olivier created his first French-speaking economics popularization blog. Since then, Olivier has written hundreds of articles and thousands of social media posts, hosted podcasts, published YouTube videos, and hosted online and in-person events to communicate economics to the general public. Olivier currently runs the largest French economics popularization newsletter, and he does science communication consulting.

In 2012, Olivier began teaching economics, statistics, and mathematics at various French higher education institutions and, to his surprise, continues to do so to this day.

Since writing his first line of R code in 2014, Olivier has also become a proficient R user, with a strong interest in data visualization. He does statistics consulting for clients (including academics) and teaches R online and in person.

Soumyajit (Shom) Mazumder is a political economist, writer, and academic editor who received his PhD in government from Harvard University in 2020. He is currently working on a book-length project on the promise of deepening democracy in the workplace.

Shom's research spans several areas including corporate governance, racial capitalism, mass incarceration, and state-building and has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Review of Economic Studies, Science Advances, and the Journal of Historical Political Economy.

His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Jacobin, and FiveThirtyEight, where he is a contributor. Shom joined Standard Error as an academic editor in 2023.