Sarah C. Maza (PhD Princeton, 1978), Jane Long Professor in the Humanities specializes in the social and cultural history of eighteenth and nineteenth century France. She has published three books, Servants and Master in Eighteenth-Century France (1983), Private Lives and Public Affairs: the Causes Celebres of Pre-Revolutionary France (1993), which won the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, and The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 (2003) winner of the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Also interested in issues of historical methodology, she has coedited the Blackwell Companion to Western Historical Thought and published articles about cultural history, history and literature, and interdisciplinarity. She regularly teaches a 405 seminar which introduces students to the theory and practice of cultural history.

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