# Timothy Colton Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies ![Timothy Colton](/sites/g/files/omnuum8171/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/harvard-iqss/files/timothy_colton_0.png?itok=TTfR-7oK) email Timothy J. Colton is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and the Chair of the Department of Government. His main interest is Russian and post-Soviet government and politics. He is the author of The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (1986); Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (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 (2000); and Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 (with Michael McFaul, 2003). He is currently writing a book on the statecraft of Boris Yeltsin and coordinating a joint project on the post-Communist state. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a member of the Joint Committee on Soviet Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and vice-chairman of the National Council for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Research. He is currently a member of the editorial board of World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs. Timothy J. Colton holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, 1974. - ## People By Last Name [A - C](/people-last-name/c) - ## Role [Affiliated Faculty](/role/affiliated-faculty)