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 doctor 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.