George McTurnan Kahin

George McTurnan Kahin
Kahin as a visiting professor at Monash University in 1971
Born	(1918-01-25)January 25, 1918 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died	January 29, 2000(2000-01-29) (aged 82) Rochester, New York, U.S.
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University Stanford University Johns Hopkins University
Scientific career
Fields	History, political science
Institutions	Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	Rupert Emerson
Other academic advisors	Owen Lattimore
Doctoral students	Benedict Anderson, Herbert Feith, Daniel Lev[1]

George McTurnan Kahin^{[Note 1]} (January 25, 1918 – January 29, 2000) 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.^[2] 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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