chapter to France and Its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image, edited by Patricia M. E. Lorcin and Daniel Brewer (Palgrave, 2009).
Maryse Simon is an associate faculty member of the University of Strasbourg where she teaches early modern history. She holds a doctorate in history of religions, and was a researcher at the University of Oxford (2004–2008) as a fellow of the Marie Curie Actions from the European Commission. Dr Simon’s books include Sorcellerie savant et mentalités populaires (Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, forthcoming) and Les affaires de sorcellerie dans le val de Lièpvre (Publications de la Société Savante, 2006). Her articles have appeared in journals such as French History, Food and History, the Revue des Sciences Sociales, and Histoire et Sociétés Rurales.
Richard D. Sonn is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas. He received his MA and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and the BA from the University of Michigan. He has published three books: Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France (University of Nebraska Press, 1989), Anarchism (Twayne, 1992), and Sex, Violence and the Avant Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France (Pennsylvania State University Press). He is currently working on a project entitled ‘Jewish Modernism: Immigrant Artists in Paris, 1905-1940’.
Natasha Synicky is a PhD student in the history program at University of California, Irvine. She holds an MA from the University of Connecticut and a BA from California State University, Fullerton.
Guillaume de Syon teaches history at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, and is a Visiting Scholar in history at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. He is the author of Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900–1939 (Johns Hopkins, 2002) and other publications examining the intersection of culture and technology, notably in the realm of popular arts (postcards) and comics. Earlier publications related to this volume’s theme include “Engines of Emancipation? Women’s