Patricia Herlihy is a professor of history Emerita at Brown University. Her areas of interest include social, economic, and religious history of Russia and the Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has taught Russian and Soviet history at Brown University since 1986. She recently completed a second term as director of the International Relations Program. She also finished a book manuscript on The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002). A current project includes the text for a photographic history of the city of Odessa. Her first book on Odessa was released as a Ukrainian language edition at the Fourth International Ukrainian Studies Conference, which she attended in Odessa in August 1999. She also is working on a biography of Eugene Schuyler, a nineteenth century Russian historian, translator, and diplomat who served in Russia, Constantinople, Rumania, Serbia, Greece, England, Italy, and Egypt. Professor Herlihy received her PhD in Russian history from the University of Pennsylvania.