Dr. Michael David-Fox is the Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. He is a historian of modern Russia and the USSR, whose work has ranged from cultural and political history to transnational studies and modernity theory.

He is a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, now based at Georgetown, a transformative journal that has helped to internationalize the field of Russian Studies. For this, he received the 2010 Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.