Sheila Fitzpatrick is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Russian History and the College in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She holds a doctor of philosophy from the University of Oxford and has authored and contributed to numerous publications, including several books on the Russian Revolution and the decades that followed.
Her most recent books, all published by Melbourne University Press, include:
Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s (2017);
A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia (2013);
My Father's Daughter (2010), winner of the Australian Historical Association's Magarey Medal for Biography.
