S. Frederick Starr
| S. Frederick Starr | |
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| 12th President of Oberlin College | |
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In office July 1983 – June 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Emil Danenberg |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Dye |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Stephen Frederick Starr March 24, 1940 |
| Education |
Yale University (B.A.) Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
| Profession | Russian and Eurasian affairs expert, historian, musician |
Stephen Frederick Starr (born March 24, 1940) is an American expert on Russian and Eurasian affairs, a noted musician, and a former college president, having served as President of Oberlin College for 11 years.
Founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, he is fluent in Russian, and is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 articles on Russian and Eurasian affairs. Starr's expertise is in Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union. He focuses on developing nations, energy and environment issues, Islamic faith, culture and law, and oil politics.
Starr has advised three U.S. presidents on Russian/Eurasian affairs and chaired an external advisory panel on U.S. government-sponsored research on the region, organized and co-authored the first comprehensive strategic assessment of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Afghanistan for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1999, and has followed up by close involvement in drafting of recent U.S. legislation affecting the region.
He is a research professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Starr earned his B.A. Degree at Yale University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in history at Princeton University. He also spent time in interim studying at University of Cambridge, UK, Kings College.
He began work in the Turkic world as an archaeologist in Turkey and in 1974 on to found the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, which opened U.S. research contact with Central Asia. Starr served as vice president of Tulane University from 1979-1982, as well as its vice provost from 1980–1981.
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