AUTHORS
Mary Schaeffer Conroy
Mary Schaeffer Conroy is Emeritus Professor, History, University of Colorado, Denver. She received her Ph. D. in Russian History from Indiana University in 1964. Her first trip to Russia was in 1963. In addition to teaching at Kansas State University, the University of Illinois (1965-68), and the University of Colorado from 1975-2006, she has lectured to civic groups, for museum exhibits, at international conferences, and on Volga cruises in the 1990s. In addition to journal articles, she has authored biographies of Russian statesman P. A. Stolypin and cosmetics baron E. Virgil Neal, three books on pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry of Imperial Russia and the USSR, edited two works on civil society in late Imperial Russia. and a recent booklet: Collaboration with Germany by Georgians in France during World War II.
Rolf Torstendahl
Rolf Torstendahl is emeritus professor of history at the University of Uppsala where he has spent most of his career. He was Sven Warburg professor of history at the University of Stockholm from 1978 to 1980.[1] Torstendahl has a special interest in bureaucratisation, the professionalism of engineers, and historiography.[2] His book History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation of a Discipline (1996) describes the evolution of historical professionalism. A more recent book is The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism (Rutledge 2015).
He also is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Contributing Authors:
Charles Timberlake, Professor at the University of Missouri, now sadly deceased.
Thomas Earl Porter, currently Professor of History and Political Science, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Dr. William Gleason, currently Coordinator of Advanced Polish and Ukrainian Studies and Coordinator of Eurasian Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department State.
Dr. Dittmar Dahlmann, currently Emeritus Professor, Abteilung für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, University of Bonn, Germany.
Antti Kujala, currently Professor, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture, and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Alexandra Korros, currently Professor Emerita, Department of History, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Kimitaka Matsuzato, currently Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan.