Michael David-Fox

Michael David-Fox (born May 21, 1965) is an American historian who studies modern Russia and the Soviet Union.

Biography David-Fox received his A.B. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Yale University.

David-Fox has been a professor at the Higher School of Economics since 2014, and director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, for which he received the 2010 Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

He has been a fellow, visiting professor, and honorary professor in France, Germany, and Russia, and Kennan Institute member. In the Spring of 1996, David-Fox was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden. In 2017, he was awarded a fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for his study of European and Latin American history.

As of 2021, he is the author of several books, nine edited volumes, twelve edited special theme issues of peer-reviewed academic journals, and about 50 articles and chapters.

On 1 August 2026, Michael David-Fox succeeded Misha Glenny as the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.