George McTurnan Kahin papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-27-3146

Abstract

Correspondence, Cornell lectures and course materials, articles and speeches, files about meetings, and book draft.

Dates

1945 - 2000

Creator

Kahin, George McTurnan. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of International Studies. George McTurnan Kahin graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and completed graduate work at Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University. He served in the Army during World War II, and lived in Indonesia from 1948-1949, during the peak of Indonesia's war for independence. He came to Cornell in 1951 as an assistant professor of government and executive director of the newly formed Southeast Asia Program. He served as director of the program until 1970, and also founded the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project in 1954, and directed it until his retirement in 1988.

Extent

93.1 cubic feet. (93.1 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

SERIES LIST

<ref target="s1"> <emph render="bold">Series I. Book Manuscript</emph> </ref>: Box 1
<ref target="s2"> <emph render="bold">Series II. Subject Files</emph> </ref>: Boxes 1-2, 76, 78
<ref target="s3"> <emph render="bold">Series III. Correspondence</emph> </ref>: Boxes 2-10, 16-21, 37-44, 76
<ref target="s4"> <emph render="bold">Series IV. Teaching and Research Materials</emph> </ref>: Boxes 10-13
<ref target="s5"> <emph render="bold">Series V. Speeches and Meetings</emph> </ref>: Boxes 13-15, 78
<ref target="s6"> <emph render="bold">Series VI. Lectures</emph> </ref>: Boxes 56-57
<ref target="s7"> <emph render="bold">Series VII. Administration</emph> </ref>: Boxes 45-48
<ref target="s8"> <emph render="bold">Series VIII. Indonesia and Research Materials</emph> </ref>: Boxes 49-55, 58, 70, 76-79
<ref target="s9"> <emph render="bold">Series IX. Asia Foundations</emph> </ref>: Boxes 59-60
<ref target="s10"> <emph render="bold">Series X. Philippines</emph> </ref>: Boxes 61-64
<ref target="s11"> <emph render="bold">Series XI. Publications: Southeast Asia</emph> </ref>: Boxes 65-66
<ref target="s12"> <emph render="bold">Series XII. Cambodia (Laos & Thailand)</emph> </ref>: Boxes 67-69
<ref target="s13"> <emph render="bold">Series XIII. Vietnam</emph> </ref>: Boxes 73-74
<ref target="s14"> <emph render="bold">Series XIV. Burma</emph> </ref>: Boxes 74
<ref target="s15"> <emph render="bold">Series XV. Malaysia, Singapore & Indonesia</emph> </ref>: Boxes 74-75
<ref target="s16"> <emph render="bold">Series XVI. Presidential Libraries Series</emph> </ref>: Boxes 71-72

Physical Description

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, documents.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Sarah Keating, Anne Eller, RMC Staff
Date completed:: August 2001, August 2007
EAD encoding:: Peter M. Martinez, September 2001 Anne Eller, Evan Fay Earle, August 2007
Date modified:: RMC Staff, September 2018