Sarah Crawford Maza
Department of History

Sarah Crawford Maza (PhD Princeton), Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, specializes in the social and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. She is the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France, (1983) and of 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. The book was also published in French by Fayard (1997), reviewed in Le Monde and Le Nouvel Observateur among others, and was the subject of a radio program in the "Les lundis de l'histoire" series on France-Culture. Her most recent book is entitled The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 (2003). 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. Maza has longstanding contact with historians at the Centre de Recherches Historiques of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, particularly Roger Chartier, Jacques Revel, Arlette Farge, and Alain Boureau, and with Christian Jouhaud at the CNRS. In 1988 she served as Directeur d'Etudes Associe at the EHESS.

scm@northwestern.edu