Guillaume de Syon

347 N West End Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17603

Prof: History Dept.
Albright College
Reading, PA 19612-5234

Phone: 610-921-7822

Email: gdesyon@alb.edu or guillaume.desyon@fandm.edu

Presentations and Subjects:

1) The Flying Machine in Utopia and Reality (using collectibles, caricatures and postcards up to 1920)

2) Introducing Car Culture: The Case of the Postcard, 1890-1914

3) World War I postcards: Reading new Meanings in Censored media

4) Airline Maps and Advertising in the Interwar Years

Biographical Information:

BA Tufts U, MA George Washington University: PhD Boston University. Currently Professor of History at Albright College in Reading, PA

References:

CV and complete list of past work available upon request. See also Albright College Speakers Bureau (http://www.albright.edu/resources/speakersbureau.html)

Speaking Engagements:

15 years of public speaking to venues ranging from retirement homes to Kiwanis/Lions Rotary as part of Albright College’s community outreach program. Similar experience in academic venues.