Sandra Ott


















Sandra Ott is professor of Basque studies at the
William A. Douglass Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. She
received a master of letters and octor of philosophy in social anthropology from the University of Oxford. Her works
include The Circle of Mountains: A Basque
Shepherding Community (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1981) and War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque
Borderlands. 1914-1945 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008). Living with the Enemy: German Occupation,
Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948 appeared in
2017 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). She has held a fellowship at the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales in Paris and received a summer stipend from the National
Endowment of the Humanities. Her current book project explores the experiences
of Jews in the Basses-Pyrénées during the Occupation and the spoliation of
their property, as well as local complicity and strategies for protecting
Jewish property from theft by the Vichy and Nazi regimes.