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Academic Board of Directors


Theodore W. Friend, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

 

 

 

Bio

Theodore Friend, Ph.D., a historian, novelist, and teacher, is a former President of Swarthmore College. As President Emeritus of Eisenhower Fellowships, he continued as a trustee of its national and international board, which is based in Philadelphia. He also chairs the review panel (PA, NJ, DE) for the scholarships administered by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Harvard University Press is publishing in June 2003, Dr. Friend's "Indonesian Destinies", the first full-scale history of Indonesia as a nation state. In the spring semester of 2004 he will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.


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