Timothy M. Frye

Biography Frye received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College in 1986, an M.I.A. from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 1992, and a Ph.D. from Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1997. From 2011-2022, he was the academic supervisor and leading research fellow of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, but left that position in March 2022. Since 2016, he is the editor of Post-Soviet Affairs. In 2024, he was named to the Scholars Council at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.

Awards He won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association for Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy in 2011. Previously, he won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He was a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2019-2020 and held the Carnegie Chair in Russian Studies at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in 2023.