Professional Affiliation

Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Amherst College

Expert Bio

William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science emeritus at Amherst College. He received his A.B. in history from Harvard College in 1962, a Certificate of Columbia University’s Russian Institute in 1965, and a Ph.D in public law and government from Columbia in 1969. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Critics Circle award for biography, and of Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. He is also a former Wilson Center fellow.

 

Wilson Center Project

Short Term Scholar, Kennan, March 1983 - May 1983, Khrushchev's American Policy