The Author: Mary Schaeffer Conroy received her B.A. in history and humanities from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, her M.A. in history from the Russian & East European Institute at Indiana University, and her Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. Currently Full Professor in the History Department at the University of Colorado at Denver, Conroy is the author of Peter Arkad'evich Stolypin: Practical Politics in Late Tsarist Russia and In Health and In Sickness: Pharmacy, Pharmacists and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Late Imperial, Early Soviet Russia, for which she received the George Urdang Medal in 1998. The editor of Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia, Conroy has contributed chapters to compilations and articles to Soviet Studies/Europe Asia Studies, Pharmacy in History, and other journals.