Stephen Frederick Starr (born March 24, 1940) is an American expert on Russian and Eurasian affairs, a musician, and a former college president, having served as President of Oberlin College for 11 years.
Books in order of publication:
Decentralization and Self-Government in Russia, 1830-1870. Princeton University Press, 1972.
Melnikov. Solo Architect in a Mass Society. Princeton University Press, 1978.
Two Evils: Memoirs of a Diplomat-Soldier During the Third Reich. with Hans von Herwarth. Collins, 1981.
Red and Hot. The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union 1917-1980. Oxford University Press, 1983
Southern Comfort: The Garden District of New Orleans, 1800-1900. MIT Press, 1989.
Bamboula!: The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Strategic Assessment of Central Eurasia. Atlantic Council of the United States, 2001. with Charles Fairbanks, C. Richard Nelson, and Kenneth Weisbrode.
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Looking Forward: Kazakhstan and the United States. with Bulat Sultanov, S. Enders Wimbush, Fatima Kukeyeva, Svante E. Cornell, and Askar Nursha. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2014. The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment – 2023
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