S. Frederick Starr

S. Frederick Starr
12th President of Oberlin College
In office
July 1983 (1983-07) – June 1994 (1994-06)
Preceded byEmil Danenberg
Succeeded byNancy Dye
Personal details
Born
Stephen Frederick Starr

(1940-03-24) March 24, 1940 (age 84)
EducationYale University (BA)
King's College, Cambridge (MA)
Princeton University (PhD)
ProfessionRussian and Eurasian affairs expert, historian, musician

Stephen Frederick Starr (born March 24, 1940) is an American academic. He is a former president of Oberlin College.[1]

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.[2] 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. He joined the American Foreign Policy Council as a Distinguished Fellow for Eurasia in January 2017.

  1. ^ "S. Frederick Starr papers". New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved October 8, 2014.
  2. ^ S. Frederick Starr, Ph.D," Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University website. Accessed Dec. 16, 2013.