S. Frederick Starr

S. Frederick Starr

S. Frederick Starr (born Stephen Frederick Starr on March 24, 1940) is the founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucus Institute. He is also a noted musician.

Academic career

Starr earned his B.A. Degree at Yale University in 1962 and his Ph.D. in history at Princeton University. He is fluent in Russian, and is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 articles on Russian and Eurasian affairs.

He is a research professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His 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 began work in the Turkic world as an archaeologist in Turkey and went on to found the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, which opened U.S. research contact with Central Asia. He served as vice president of Tulane University and president of Oberlin College (1983-1994) and the Aspen Institute. He 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.

Musician

In 1980 Starr, a talented jazz clarinetist, cofounded the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble while serving at Tulane. Its members dedicate themselves to preserving the raucous pre-1930 jazz of New Orleans. The LRJE has performed across the United States. It gave the Doubleday Lecture at the Smithsonian Institution in March 1983, toured France and the Soviet Union, and made national television appearances in Italy, Japan and Sweden. Jazz historian Al Rose once called the LRJE "the most authentic band on the scene today." The Ensemble's albums include "Alive and Well" (1981), "Uptown Jazz" (1984) and "Hot & Sweet: Sounds of Lost New Orleans" (1986).


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