# Timothy J. Colton Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University ![Timothy Colton](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/huri/files/colton_t_1.jpg?itok=ZYx-X_IK) location\_on CGIS South, Room S-301A 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-495-4345](tel:617-495-4345) email [tcolton@fas.harvard.edu ]() laptop\_windows [Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University](https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about-us/people/timothy-colton) laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/timothycolton/home) Timothy Colton is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies. He is a past director of the Davis Center and a past chair of the Department of Government. His main research interest is Russian and Eurasian government and politics. He is the author of, among other works, *The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union* (Council on Foreign Relations, 1986); *Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis* (Harvard University Press, 1995), which was named best scholarly book in government and political science by the Association of American Publishers; *Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia* (Harvard University Press, 2000); *Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000*, with Michael McFaul (Brookings, 2003); *Yeltsin: A Life* (Basic Books, 2008, and published in Russia by Atticus-Azbuka in 2013); *Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know* (Oxford University Press, 2016); and *Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia*, with Samuel Charap (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2017). Fellow of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences since 2011. - ## Fields of Expertise [Political Science](/fields-expertise/political-science) - ## Role [Executive Committee](/role/executive-committee)