I am also deeply grateful to my partner, Misha Collins, for surprising me with writing-break field trips to the L.A. river during rainstorms, for offering insightful comments on seemingly countless drafts, for fixing the printer on a near daily basis, for building a beautiful place for me to work, for making me laugh when I thought I couldn’t, and for sustaining me when I got discouraged. His patience, love, and support have meant everything to me.
-Victoria Vantoch in the acknowledgments of her doctoral dissertation, “Ambassadors of the Air: The Airline Stewardess, Glamour, and Technology in the Cold War, 1945–1969”