e. attila aytekin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He has published on coal miners in Turkey, theoretical problems of historiography, and Ottoman reforms and peasants. He has recently co-edited an introductory book on political science. erdena@metu.edu.tr

nicolas delalande is a Research Fellow at the Centre for History at Sciences Po (Paris). His fields of interest are the history of the state and of political economy in modern and contemporary Europe, the circulation of economic and administrative knowledge between Europe and the United States (1850–1950), and the history of antitax mobilizations and revolts. His book, Les batailles de l’impôt: Consentement et résistances de 1789 à nos jours (Paris, Le Seuil) was published in 2011. nicolas.delalande@yahoo.fr

christophe farquet, after doing research in several European countries, is completing his Ph.D. at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. His research focuses on international attempts to regulate tax evasion during the interwar years. Christophe.Farquet@unil.ch

elsbeth heaman is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal. She is the author of two monographs as well as co-editor of a festschrift in honor of Michael Bliss. A historian of politics and culture, she is currently working on a history of the state in Canada and completing a monograph on taxation in Canada from 1867 to 1917. elsbeth.heaman@mcgill.ca

romain huret, Associate Professor of American History at the University of Lyon II, is also a member of the Institut universitaire de France and an associate of the Centre d’études nord-américaines at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. A translation of his first book, The End of Poverty? Social Experts and the War on Poverty in the United States, 1945–1972, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. He is completing a book on tax resistance, A Republic Without Taxpayers? American Tax Resisters from the Civil War to the Present (forthcoming from Harvard University Press). He is also working on a book about the tax trial of Andrew Mellon in the 1930s as part of a larger reflection on tax evasion. rhuret@ehess.fr

laurent manière holds a Ph.D. in history; his dissertation is entitled Le code de l’indigénat en Afrique occidentale française et son application: Le cas du Dahomey (1887–1946). He currently works on social control and religious mutations in French West Africa and is also interested in the administrative reconfigurations in Africa at the time of independences. He is a Research Fellow at the Sedet (Sociétés En Développement–Études Transdisciplinaires) Université Paris 7–Denis Diderot. l.maniere@orange.fr

isaac william martin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California–San Diego and is the author of The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics (Stanford, 2008) and Rich People’s Movements (Oxford, forthcoming 2013). He co-edited After the Tax Revolt: California’s Proposition 13 Turns 30 (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2009) and The New Fiscal Sociology (Cambridge, 2009). His articles on the historical sociology of tax protest have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the Law and Society Review, and the Socio-Economic Review, among other journals. iwmartin@ucsd.edu

josé antonio sánchez román is Assistant Professor of Modern History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of Taxation and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a history of the sugar industry in Argentina, and several articles on the modern history of Argentina. sanchezroman@ccinf.ucm.es

alexis spire is Research Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), currently associated with University Lille Nord de France. His Ph.D. examined the relationship between the French state and immigration, in particular the role of street-level bureaucrats (Etrangers à la carte [Paris: Grasset, 2005]; “Rethinking the Political Dimension of Migrations,” Contemporary European History 18, 2009). His recent research centers on the social history of taxation in France and on inequalities between taxpayers when they face a tax audit. He has published two books on this topic: Histoire sociale de l’impôt, with Nicolas Delalande (Paris: La Découverte, 2010), and Faibles et puissant face à l’impôt (Paris: Raisons d’agir, 2012). His current teaching commitments include courses at Sciences Po Lille (“The Sociology of White Collar Crime”). He is member of the editorial board of Politix and French Politics, Culture, and Society. alexis.spire@univ-lille2.fr