Faculty
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Dr. Sandra Ott
775.682.5573
Education
1979 D.Phil., Social Anthropology, University of Oxford.
Research Interests
Dr. Ott’s research interests include Basque culture, Northern Basques
under Vichy and German Occupation; trans-Pyrenean relations in
Xiberoa, Béarn, Navarre, and Aragon; contemporary French history and
culture.
Dr. Ott teaches two capstone courses at UNR, which can be taken for
undergraduate or graduate credit: War, Occupation and Memory; and
Basque Culture.
Selected Publications
2009 (in press) “Duplicity, Indulgence and Ambiguity in Franco-German Relations, 1940-1946, History and Anthropology, (March) Vol. 28, No. 1, London: Routledge.
2008a War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945. Reno: University of Nevada Press, Basque Series.
2008b “Denunciation, Clemency and Conflict Resolution in the Basque Country (1939-1944)”, Journal of European Studies, London: Sage Publications, pp. 253-276.
2008c “The Informer, the Lover, and the Gift-Giver: Female Collaborators in Pau (1940-1946),” in French History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 94-114.
2007 “Gift- Giving and the Management of Justice: Borderland Basques under German Occupation (1942-1944) and during the Liberation,” in The Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, October (Vol.34), pp. 266-281. Winner of the Millstone Prize in French History in 2006.
2006a “Good Tongues, Bad Tongues: Denunciation, Rumour and Revenge in the Basque Country (1940–1945),” History and Anthropology (March), Paul Sant Cassia (ed.) (London: Taylor & Francis).
2006b “Good Tongues, Bad Tongues: Denunciation, Rumour and Revenge in the Basque Country (1940-1945)”, History and Anthropology, (March) Vol. 17, No. 1, Paul Sant Cassia (ed.), London: Taylor & Francis, pp.57-72.
2005a “Rain on Sunday” & “A dead man has no birthdays”
(ethnographic poetry), Anthropology and Humanism (University
of California Press).
2005b “Remembering the Resistance in Popular Theatre,” in Memory
and World War II: An Ethnographic Approach, Francesca
Cappelletto (ed.) (Oxford: Berg).
2005c “The Old Religion and the Notion of la Montagne,” in Religion et montagne, vol. 2 (Paris: Sorbonne).
Current research project:
I continue to do research in French archives on suspected collaborators during the German Occupation and am writing about Franco-Basque-Spanish-German relations during the 1930s and 1940s, with a special interest in espionage and counter-espionage in the Basque borderlands.
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