My purpose here is to do general clean up, i.e. rephrasing, grammar correction, reformatting, pronoun checks (third person rather than second), and other minor adjustments to make the information feel as professional and hot-off-the-academic-press as it can.
My primary interest is history, having gone to school for it, and cultures. I would say my special talent is the ability to track changing social and cultural ideas throughout time for comparative purposes. Some of my favorite specific eras of interest include literary devices; gender and sexuality; Japanese animation; history of immigration to the United States; history of race in the United States; Orientalism; ethnic conflict; 20th century political ideologies; the Cold War; history of medicine; psychology; colonialism; various “outcast”/working class subcultures (skinheads, rude boys, punks); and American pop culture.
Another talent would be an above-average sensitivity to English grammar and tone established with one’s vocabulary. I may not know how exactly to rewrite something, but I can read a page and derive a sense of whether it sounds professional and “Encyclopedic”, or not. I hope that doesn’t sound too classist...
My philosophy on history is heavily influenced by Collingwood, Vico, and my stubborn skepticism about the claim of “objectivity”.
I am not someone who believes I’m an expert on anything, moreso a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to my historical knowledge. Because of this, I am aware of at least a bit on a great deal of many things relating to history. STEM and economics mean nothing to me, and yes, it causes no little amount of suffering learning about the history of math.