George McTurnan Kahin

Historian, Academic

1918 – 2000

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Who was George McTurnan Kahin?

George McTurnan Kahin was an American historian and political scientist. He was one of the leading experts on Southeast Asia and a critic of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. After completing his dissertation, which is still considered a classic on Indonesian history, Kahin became a faculty member at Cornell University. At Cornell, he became the director of its Southeast Asia Program and founded the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project. Kahin's incomplete memoir was published posthumously in 2003.

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Born
Jan 25, 1918
Baltimore
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
  • PhD, Johns Hopkins University
    Political Science
    ( - 1951)
Lived in
  • Ithaca
    ( - 2000/01/29)
Died
Jan 29, 2000
Rochester

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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