Christine D. Worobec is Presidential Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois
University. She is the author of Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period
(Princeton University Press, 1991; Northern Illinois University Press, 1995) and Possessed: Women, Witches
and Demons in Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) as well as co-editor with Barbara
Evans Clements and Barbara Alpem Engel of Women in Russia: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation
(University of California Press, 1991). She is currently working on a short biography of St. Serafim of Sarov
and a history of Orthodox pilgrimages in Russia and Ukraine from the eighteenth century to the present.,
Mary Zirin is an independent researcher-translator based in Altadena, CA. For the past thirty years she
has devoted major effort to research on and recovery of the lives and works of nineteenth-century Russian
women writers. Together with Marina Ledkovsky and Charlotte Rosenthal, she served as a contributor to
and editor of the Dictionary o f Russian Women Writers (Greenwood Press, 1994); the dictionary contains
articles on 448 authors from all periods of Russian history.,
Christine D. Worobec is Presidential Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois
University. She is the author of Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period
(Princeton University Press, 1991; Northern Illinois University Press, 1995) and Possessed: Women, Witches
and Demons in Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) as well as co-editor with Barbara
Evans Clements and Barbara Alpem Engel of Women in Russia: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation
(University of California Press, 1991). She is currently working on a short biography of St. Serafim of Sarov
and a history of Orthodox pilgrimages in Russia and Ukraine from the eighteenth century to the present.,
Mary Zirin is an independent researcher-translator based in Altadena, CA. For the past thirty years she
has devoted major effort to research on and recovery of the lives and works of nineteenth-century Russian
women writers. Together with Marina Ledkovsky and Charlotte Rosenthal, she served as a contributor to
and editor of the Dictionary o f Russian Women Writers (Greenwood Press, 1994); the dictionary contains
articles on 448 authors from all periods of Russian history.