Sandrine Bertaux is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University, Istanbul, and a fellow in the Culturalization of Citizenship program at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Projecting the Nation: European States in the 1920s and 1930s (2006), published in conjunction with the exhibition she curated. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the science of population in the era of fascism and the Cold War.