S. Frederick Starr
Author of Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
About the Author
S. Frederick Starr is founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Silk Road Studies Program, a research and policy center affiliated with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. A past president of show more Oberlin College and the Aspen Institute, he began his career in classical archaeology, excavating at Gordium in modern Turkey and mapping the Persian Royal Road. show less
Image credit: Uncredited image found at American Foreign Policy Council website
Series
Works by S. Frederick Starr
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (2013) 298 copies, 4 reviews
Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans (The Flora Levy Humanities Series) (1989) 65 copies
Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia (Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus) (2011) 14 copies
The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (International Politics of Eurasia) (1995) 7 copies
Associated Works
Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (2001) — Editor & introduction — 64 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Starr, S. Frederick
- Legal name
- Starr, Stephen Frederick
- Birthdate
- 1940-03-24
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Princeton University (Ph.D)
King's College, Cambridge University (MA)
Yale University (BA|1962) - Occupations
- founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
jazz clarinetist, cofounder of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble
professor
academic administrator - Organizations
- Tulane University
Oberlin College
Aspen Institute
Johns Hopkins University
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Statistics
- Works
- 25
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 668
- Popularity
- #37,771
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
- 57
- Languages
- 4