Gayle K. Brunelle received her Ph.D. in early modern European history and Atlantic World from Emory University. She is Professor Emeritus in History at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Brunelle is an affiliate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, and the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. She is a recipient of many grants and awards.  Dr. Brunelle is the author of four books: The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630. Volume Sixteen, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers/Truman State University Press, 1991); Murder in the Métro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France, co-authored with Annette Finley-Croswhite, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010); Samuel de Champlain: The Founder of New France. A Brief History with Documents, (New York: Bedford/Saint Martin’s Press, 2012), and Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France, co-authored with Annette Finley-Croswhite, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020).  Dr. Brunelle has published numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book chapters in edited collections. Her current research projects include: Tropical Chimeras: France in Guiana, 1604-1676, a monograph study of France’s efforts to colonize French Guiana in the 17^th century under contract with Louisiana State University Press; and Fortunes of Violence: Simon Lecomte, a Merchant in Toulouse during the French Wars of Religion, a microhistory that explores the underlying social and economic causes of judicial and extra-judicial violence and is under contract with the University of Toronto Press. She is also editing a volume in the forthcoming series from Bloomsbury Press, A Cultural History of Exploration. Dr. Brunelle is a writer and historical consultant to film and script projects in both France and the United States.  She can be heard on the popular radio show Autant en L’Emporte l’Histoire with France Inter in an emission entitled: “1941 Marx Dormoy, minister du Front Popularie est assassiné par la Cagoule.” https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire-03-novembre-2019.  Dr. Brunelle resides in Carcassonne, France.