# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-mcturnan-kahin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:43:31.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-mcturnan-kahin"
name: "George McTurnan Kahin"
slug: "george-mcturnan-kahin"
description: "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."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/GeorgeKahin.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-01-25"
deathDate: "2000-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.36
  momentum:             0.08403361344537816
  historical:           5.279626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "George McTurnan Kahin"
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    title: "جورج ماكترنان كاهين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جورج مکتورن کاهین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George McTurnan Kahin"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McTurnan_Kahin"
    title: "George McTurnan Kahin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McTurnan_Kahin"
    title: "George McTurnan Kahin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump