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 * Sarah Maza (born April 12, 1953) is Professor of History and the Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Her areas of expertise include the social and cultural history of France from the eighteenth century to the present and historical methodology.
 * Born to an American father and a British mother, she was raised and educated in Aix-en-Provence, France. After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Aix-Marseille she moved to the United States to pursue a doctorate at Princeton University, where she studied with Robert Darnton.
 * Her books have received the David Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies and the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association. In 2005-2006 she served as President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and in 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
 * Besides studies of aspects of social and cultural life in France from the eighteenth to the twentieth century she is the author of widely-read articles and books on historical methods, cultural history, interdisciplinarity, and the relationship between history and literature.
 * She lives with her spouse Sean Shesgreen in Evanston, Illinois and Paris
 * Publications:
 * Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty (Princeton University Press, 1983)
 * Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (University of California Press, 1993)
 * ed., with Lloyd Kramer, The Blackwell Companion to Western Historical Thought (Blackwell, 2002)
 * The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 (Harvard University Press, 2003)
 * Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (University of California Press, 2011)
 * Thinking About History (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
 * Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (University of California Press, 2011)
 * Thinking About History (University of Chicago Press, 2017)