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 20 scholarly articles on a wide range of topics in leading History and Russian studies journals. He has edited or co-edited five 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; and After the Fall: Essays on Russian and Soviet Historiography after Communism.
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. 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.
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.