Cheryl R. Ganz is Chief Curator of Philately of the Smithsonian Institution, National Postal Museum and Lead Curator of the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery. Ganz earned her PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress earned the Smithsonian Secretary's Research Prize in 2011. Her areas of expertise are zeppelin posts, Great Depression, and world's fairs.
