Timothy M. Frye

Timothy M. Frye
Academic background
Education	Middlebury College (BA) Columbia University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	Columbia University Higher School of Economics

Timothy M. Frye is an American political scientist. He is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and the author of several books about Russia and Eurasia.

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. Frye was the director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University from 2009 to 2015 and Chair of the Political Science Department from 2016-2019. 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.

Bibliography

• Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia. Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN 9780691212463
• Property Rights and Property Wrongs: How Power, Institutions, and Norms Shape Economic Conflict in Russia. Cambridge University Press, 2017.ISBN 9781316610107
• Building States and Markets After Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780521734622
• Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Market Institutions in Russia. University of Michigan Press, 2000.ISBN 978-0-472-02348-6