Russian and Eurasian History Programs

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Michael David-Fox

Associate Professor
Ph.D, Yale University. 1993
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.”

Carolyn Pouncy

Faculty Research Fellow
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
cpouncy@umd.edu

Carolyn Pouncy specializes in pre-Petrine Russian history, specifically the culture and politics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her edited and annotated The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible, won the Heldt Prize for Best Translation by a Woman in Slavic Studies in 1994. She has also published in Russian Review , Harvard Ukrainian Studies , Russian History/Histoire russe , and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History . From 1985 to 1992, she was a Fellow at the Russian Research Center, now the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, at Harvard University and, from 1987 to 1989, managing editor of  Russian Review --then also run out of Harvard. She currently works as managing editor for Kritika, the editorial offices of which are located at the University of Maryland.

Mikhail Dolbilov

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Voronezh State University, Russia (1996)
Dolbilov@umd.edu

A historian of imperial Russia, Mikhail Dolbilov is mostly interested in the tsarist bureaucracy’s mentality and statecraft; interconnections between state reforms and symbolic representations of the Russian autocracy; and ethnic and confessional politics on the empire’s western periphery in the age of rising nationalism. Along with Aleksei Miller, he has published the Russian-language volume The Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire (2006). He is author of a range of articles, both in Russian and English, that address complex issues of the Russo-Polish rivalry in a broader imperial context and argue that the rule over these borderlands was an essential part of how the empire functioned as a whole. In his forthcoming Russian Land, Foreign Faith: Ethno-religious Policy of Empire in Lithuania and Belarus under Alexander II (in Russian), Dolbilov focuses on the imperial dialectics of religious tolerance and discrimination against non-Orthodox faiths (as practiced towards Roman Catholics and Jews) during the era of the Great Reforms, detecting the impact that nationalist sensibilities had on earlier Enlightenment-born disciplining patterns of the state’s confessional engineering. Dolbilov serves on the editorial board of the Historia Rossica series of the Moscow publisher Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Observer), committed to fostering provocative revisions of the field of Russian history and, particularly, translating into Russian recent innovative works by Western Russianists. He has taught at the European University in St. Petersburg (2006-2009) and has been a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University and the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University (Japan).

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