Cheryl R. Ganz, Chief Curator of Philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and Lead Curator of the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery (opening 2013), enjoys a life-long interest in zeppelins and airmail. Her interest led her to focus her philatelic collections on zeppelin mail worldwide with specialization in U.S. airships, the 1933 Graf Zeppelin Chicago flight, and the Hindenburg. She also collects U.S., France, Germany, and Switzerland philately. In addition to research and writing, she has exhibited worldwide, including in the Court of Honor at Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition. Ganz served as an editor of The Zeppelin Collector for thirty-six years, is a past-president of the American Air Mail Society, and serves on the Ethics Committee of the American Philatelic Society. Her many awards include the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize, Royal Philatelic Society London’s Lee Medal, Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame, the Federation Internationale des Societes Aerophilateliques Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to aerophilately, the Newberry Award for contributions to Chicagoland philately, the Classics Society’s Distinguished Philatelist Award, and the Elizabeth C. Pope Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a life member of APS, APRL, AAMS, GPS, and AAPE. Ganz earned a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress, co-editor of and contributor to Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, and co-author of Delivering Hope: FDR & Stamps of the Great Depression and Fire & Ice: Hindenburg and Titanic.