2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4295
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: mdavidf@umd.edu

         Michael David-Fox has been at the forefront of the transformation of Russian and Soviet history since the fall of communism; he has published widely on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. Works include Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (Cornell University Press, 1997) and over 25 scholarly articles on a wide range of topics in leading History and Russian studies journals. He has edited or co-edited six books, including Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers, and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe (Greenwood); two volumes in Russian entitled Amerikanskaia rusistika (American Russian Studies); The Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History; After the Fall: Essays on Russian and Soviet Historiography after Communism; and Orientalism and Empire in Russia. .

         David-Fox is a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, where he regularly comments on a broad range of issues in editorials, reaction pieces, and reviews.   Since 2000, he has edited nine special theme issues of the journal, most recently “Enmity and Fascination:  Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945” (2009).  He is currently finishing a book manuscript on the Soviet reception of Western intellectuals and fellow-travelers in the 1920's and 1930's, " Inside the 'Great Experiment': Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941." He has been a Humboldt Fellow (Germany) and holds an honorary degree from Samara State University (Russia). He has been a visiting scholar or fellow at the W. Averill Harriman Institute at Columbia University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Ohio State University's Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the Mershon Center for Studies in International Security and Public Policy, and the National Academy of Education. Most recently, in 2009-2010, he was a visiting professor at EHESS in Paris and a Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.”

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