Cheryl R. Ganz is Curator of Philately Emerita at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. She has curated exhibits, written for the museum website (postalmuseum.si.edu), and co-authored Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression (2009) and Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic (2012). Her area of expertise is mail flown by zeppelins. Ganz earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago in United States History and identifies as a social cultural historian. She authored The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress (hardcover 2008, softbound 2012), co-edited and contributed to Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40 (2004), authored Favorite Finds (2013) and Pacific Exchange: China & U.S. Mail (2014). Her latest books are Every Stamp Tells a Story: The National Philatelic Collection (Dec 2014), (with Dan Grossman and Patrick Russell) Zeppelin Hindenburg: An Illustrated History of LZ-129 (2017), and U.S. Zeppelin and Airship Mail Flights (2021). She received the Smithsonian Institution 2011 Secretary's Research Prize for The 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
