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Sarah C. Maza
18th-19th century France
Office: Harris Hall #304
Phone: 847-491-3460
E-mail: scm
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Sarah C. Maza (PhD Princeton, 1978), Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, specializes in the history of France from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, with a focus on social, cultural and intellectual history. She has published Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty ( Princeton University Press, 1983), Private Lives and Public Affairs: the Causes Celebres of Pre-Revolutionary France (University of California Press, 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 (Harvard University Press, 2003) winner of the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. Her latest book, Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris, will be published by the University of California Press in early 2011. She also works on issues of theory and methodology, has published articles on cultural history, history and literature, and interdisciplinarity, and coedited the Blackwell Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002). Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is a past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and currently serves on the council of the American Historical Association.
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