Michael David-Fox

2010: Editor-in-chief, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History, Georgetown University, 2013- . Associate Professor, 2011-2013.

Founding Editor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2000-2010; Executive Editor, 2010-present.

Interim Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2015-2016.

Academic Supervisor, The International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2014-present.

Previous Positions

Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park (1998-2011; Assistant Professor, 1995-1998); Director, Central European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES), 2002-2009. 

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, Department of History, 1993.

M.Phil. Yale University, Department of History, 1990.

M.A. Yale University, Department of History, 1988.

B.A. magna cum laude, Princeton University, Department of History and Program in Russian Studies, 1987.

Lead International Researcher and Co-Head, Laboratory on Occupations and Liberations in Europe, 1939-1945 (Higher School of Economics, Center for the History and Sociology of World War II). $1.2 m grant received in collaboration with Oleg Budnitskii, 2014-2016.

Georgetown University Senior Faculty Fellowship, awarded for fall 2015.

Georgetown University Graduate School, Summer Academic Grant, 2012.

Humboldt Research Fellowship, renewed for three months in summer 2010.

Jack and Anita Hess Seminar for Faculty: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: New Sources, New Perspective for Use in Teaching,January 2010, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Graduate Research Board semester grant, University of Maryland (full salary and research stipend), fall 2009.

Humboldt Forschungsstipendium, Humboldt-Stiftung, for affiliation with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the University of Tübingen, 2006-2007.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) grant, 2003 National Research Competition, 2003-2004.

Office of International Programs (University of Maryland) travel grant, for trip to Moscow, summer 2003.

Graduate Research Board, University of Maryland, semester grant, Spring 2002.

National Academy of Education Collaborative Projects Initiative grant (with Alexander Sidorkin), 2001.

Spencer Foundation, Small Research Grant Program, $35,000 for spring 2000.

International Travel Fund, Office of International Affairs, College Park, for travel to Moscow, summer 1999.

National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow, spring semester 1998 and spring semester 1999.

General Research Board, University of Maryland, Summer Research Award, June-August 1997.

Spencer Foundation, major grant ($60,000) as principal investigator of “Academia in Upheaval: The Origins and Demise of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe,” 1995-1996.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Short-Term Grant, for a research trip to Moscow, summer 1994.

American Council of Teachers of Russia (ACTR) Research Scholar Program, U.S. Department of State Title VIII Fellowship for research in Moscow and Petersburg, winter 1994.

Spencer Dissertation Year Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Spencer Foundation, 1992-1993.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1991-1992, 1989-90 and 1988-1989.

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) German language training fellowship, October-November 1992.

Short-Term Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington D.C., December 1991-January 1992.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Long-Term Advanced Research fellowship, 1990-1991.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program fellowship, 1990-1991.

Fox Fellowship, Yale University research exchange with Moscow State University, awarded twice (spring 1989 and spring 1992)

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2014-2015.

Honorary Visiting Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2014.

Cummings Foundation Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Memorial Holocaust

Museum, 2013.

Distinguished Editor Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), conferred at MLA,

2011

Davis Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 2010.

Professeur invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 2009.

Humboldt Fellow (Forschungsstipendium, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung), Berlin, 2006-2007.

Professor honoris causa(pochetnoe zvanie professor) Samara State University, Russia, honorary title awarded 31 May 2002.

Visiting Scholar, Mershon Center for Studies in International Security and Public Policy, Ohio

State University, spring 2000, 2000-2001.

Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala, 1996.

Research Scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., 1994-1995.

Post-Doctoral Fellow, W. Averell Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 1993-94.