Michael David-Fox
- Academic Supervisor:The International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
- Michael David-Fox has been at HSE University since 2014.
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
E. Sidorov, City Administration in Moscow and London during World War II: Food Supply and Evacuation. Faculty of Humanities, 2016
A. Trusov, Antarctica in the International Relationships: from the Cold War to the Present Day. Faculty of Humanities, 2016
Courses (2018/2019)
Editorial board membership
2010: Editor-in-chief, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
Conferences
Books5
- Book Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Пересекая границы: модерность, идеология и культура в России и Советском союзе / Пер. с англ. М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2020.
- Book David-Fox M. Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
- Book Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Витрины великого эксперимента. Культурная дипломатия Советского Союза и его западные гости, 1921—1941 годы. М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2015.
- Book David-Fox M. Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union. NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Book David-Fox M. Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Studies of the Harriman Institute, 2012.
Articles and book chapters22
- Article David-Fox M. Re-Reading Fainsod in Smolensk // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2021. Vol. 22. No. 4 (in press)
- Article David-Fox M. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture // Journal of Modern History. 2020. Vol. 92. No. 3. P. 729-731. doi
- Chapter David-Fox M. Illusions of Influence and the Mystique of Power: The Fellow-Travelers and Stalin as Philosopher-King, in: Ideological Storms. Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation. Budapest : Central European University Press, 2019. Ch. 1. P. 25-40.
- Article David-Fox M. Syncretic Subculture or Stalinism without Stalin? Soviet Partisans as Communities of Violence // Russian Review. 2019. Vol. 78. No. 3. P. 486-501.
- Chapter Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Начальник города. Б.Г. Меньшагин в историческом контексте // В кн.: Борис Меньшагин: Воспоминания. Письма. Документы / Сост.: П. М. Полян. М., СПб. : Издательство Нестор-История, 2019. С. 173-214.
- Article David-Fox M. Bolshevik Millenarianism as Academic Blockbuster // Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 2018. Vol. 52. P. 75-86. doi
- Chapter David-Fox M. Illusion der Einflussnahme und Nimbus der Macht: Die fellow-traveler und Stalin als Philosophenkönig, in: „Auf nach Moskau!“ Reiseberichte aus dem Exil. Ein internationales Symposion. Baden-Baden : Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 2018. Ch. 2. P. 31-50.
- Article David-Fox M. Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine // Russian Review. 2018. Vol. 77. No. 4. P. 668-669.
- Article Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Жизненный цикл русской революции: опыт теоретического и сравнительного исследования. Часть 1 / Пер. с англ. // Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре. 2018. Т. 118. № 2. С. 51-76.
- Article Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Жизненный цикл русской революции: опыт теоретического и сравнительного исследования. Часть 2 / Пер. с англ. // Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре. 2018. Т. 119. № 3. С. 55-82.
- Article David-Fox M. Toward a Life Cycle Analysis of the Russian Revolution // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2017. Vol. 18. No. 4. P. 741-783. doi
- Chapter David-Fox M. From Bounded to Juxtapositional: New Histories of the Gulag, in: The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison / Ed. by M. David-Fox. Pittsburgh : Pittsburgh University Press, 2016.
- Article David-Fox M. Stalin: The Leader and the System // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2016. Vol. 17. No. 1. P. 119-129. doi
- Article David-Fox M. The People’s War: Ordinary People and Regime Strategies in a War of Extremes // Slavic Review. 2016. Vol. 75. No. 3. P. 551-559. doi
- Article Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Модерность в России и СССР: отсутствующая, общая, альтернативная, переплетенная? // Новое литературное обозрение. 2016. № 140. С. 19-44.
- Article Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Модерность как воображаемое, модерность как инструмент: Есть ли движение вперед? / Пер. с англ. // Новое литературное обозрение. 2016. Т. 140. С. 79-91.
- Chapter David-Fox M. “Ideology as Performance: The Case of André Gide”, in: Литература и идеология. Век двадцатый. М. : МАКС Пресс, 2016.
- Article David-Fox M. What Was the Gulag // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2015. No. 3 (16). P. 469-475.
- Article David-Fox M. Soviet Jewry and Soviet History in the Time of War and Holocaust // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2014. No. 3 (15). P. 471-476.
- Chapter David-Fox M. The Iron Curtain as Semi-Permeable Membrane: The Origins and Demise of the Stalinist Superiority Complex, in: Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange Across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2014. P. 14-39.
- Chapter Дэвид-Фокс М. Ш. Размышления о сталинизме, войне и насилии // В кн.: СССР во Второй мировой войне: Оккупация. Холокост. Сталинизм / Отв. ред.: О. В. Будницкий; под общ. ред.: О. В. Будницкий, Л. Г. Новикова. М. : РОССПЭН, 2014. С. 176-195.
- Article David-Fox M. “Featured Review” of J. Arch Getty, Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition // Slavic Review. 2014. No. 73, 3 . P. 635-638.
Edited2
- Book The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison / Ed. by M. David-Fox. Pittsburgh : Pittsburgh University Press, 2016.
- Book The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses / Ed. by M. David-Fox, P. Holquist, A. Martin. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Employment 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.
Fellowships and Grants
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)
Awards and Visiting Positions
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.
Studying Cultural History of Ethnic Minorities in the USSR
Isabelle R. Kaplan, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, talks about her research on non-Slavic minorities in the Soviet Union in an interview to the HSE Look.
Studying History and Nation-Building in Borderlands
Alexandr Voronovici,a second year postdoctoral research fellow at the International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, shared his experience of teaching transnational perspective on Soviet history to HSE students.
Russian and French Scholars Present Research on Soviet History at Graduate Seminar
The International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences at HSE University held a Graduate Student Seminar in Soviet History together with Sciences Po (France) on June 17 – 18, 2019. HSE News Service spoke with participants and instructors of the seminar, which examinedthe impact of WWII on the Soviet Union and surrounding regions, as well as aspects of the Soviet system from Stalin up to the 1980s.
Analysing History through Ego-documents
International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Higher School of Economics and The Friedrich Ebert Foundation held 'A Memory Revolution’: Soviet History Through the Lens of Personal Documents' in Moscow on 7-8 June, 2017. The conference brought together distinguished historians and sociologists from across the globe. Michael David-Fox, Professor of History, Georgetown University, and Academic Advisor of HSE International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences shares his reflections and considerations on the main topic and discussions at the conference and his own research
A People’s History of War
HSE has hosted the international academic conference ‘Europe, 1945: Liberation, Occupation, Retribution,’ during which historians, sociologists, and culturologists from various countries discussed the social, economic, military, political, and cultural phenomena caused by World War II. In an interview with the HSE News Service, the Director of HSE’s International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Oleg Budnitskii, discusses the conference, its organizers, and its guests, and also talks about why it is important to study the human dimension of war.