Victoria Vantoch is a historian and journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The Los Angeles Times. She has received numerous honors for her work on airline stewardesses including a Smithsonian Institution Guggenheim Fellowship and a NASA Aerospace History Fellowship. Vantoch has written on everything from fashion to sexuality to architectural preservation; taught history to college students; and lectured at venues around the country such as the National Air and Space Museum, the Organization of American Historians, and the Library of Congress. She holds a doctorate in history from the University of Southern California.