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1Name:  Professor Jack F. Matlock
 Institution:  Duke University
 Year Elected:  1998
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1929
   
 
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a retired diplomat, has held academic posts since 1991: Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, 2007- ; Cyrus Vance Professor of International Relations, Mount Holyoke College, 2007; Sol Linowitz Professor of International Relations, Hamilton College, 2006; visiting professor and lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University, 2001-04; George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1996 to July 2001; Senior Research Fellow and then Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy at Columbia University, 1991-96. In 2015 he joined the faculty of Duke University as a Rubenstein Fellow. He will spend two years on campus based in the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, teaching courses, collaborating with students and faculty, engaging journalists and policymakers, and delivering lectures both on and off campus. In the 2016-2017 academic year he will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he will lecture on U.S.-Russia relations as part of the Russia summer program. During his 35 years in the American Foreign Service (1956-1991) he served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-91, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council Staff from 1983 until 1986, and Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1981-83. Before his appointment to Moscow as Ambassador, Mr. Matlock served three tours at the American Embassy in the Soviet Union, as Vice Consul and Third Secretary (1961-63), Minister Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission (1974-78), and Charge d'Affaires ad interim in 1981. His other Foreign Service assignments were in Vienna, Munich, Accra, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, in addition to tours in Washington as Director of Soviet Affairs in the State Department (1971-74) and as Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute (1979-80). Before entering the Foreign Service, Mr. Matlock was Instructor in Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College (1953-56). During the 1978-79 academic year he was Visiting Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004); Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995); and a handbook to the thirteen-volume Russian edition of Stalin's Collected Works (1955, 1971). Mr. Matlock was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on October 1, 1929, and was educated at Duke University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1950) and at Columbia University (M.A. and Certificate of the Russian Institute, 1952). He has been awarded honorary doctorates by four institutions. In addition to the books noted, he is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy, international relations, and Russian literature and history. He and his wife, the former Rebecca Burrum, divide their time between Booneville, Tennessee, and Durham, North Carolina. They have five children and three grandchildren.
 
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1998 (1)