Gonzalo J. Sánchez is Professor of European History and Humanities at the Juilliard School. Educated at Columbia University, he has published extensively on nineteenth-century French cultural history. Recipient of fellowships from the French Government (Chateaubriand), the American Philosophical Society, and Columbia University, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre national de recherche scientifique and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.