Speaker Information

Global Issues 2010

S. Frederick Starr

Dr. S. Frederick Starr is Chairman of the Central Asia Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. He is a Research Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His research, which has resulted in twenty books and 200 published articles, focuses on Central Asian development and social and political movements affecting it, as well as U.S. policy towards the region. He has also written extensively on Russian history and current affairs. His most recent book is "Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland". He is currently working on a major project on the Ferghana Valley involving some dozen scholars in four countries.

Starr is a frequent commentator on the affairs of the region and the author of numerous op-eds in various leading American and international newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times.

Starr holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, an MA from King’s College, Cambridge University, and a BA from Yale University. He is also the holder of four honorary degrees. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a trustee of the Eurasia Foundation.