Paul Starr
Paul Elliot Starr (born May 12, 1949) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) and co-founder (with Kuttner and Robert Reich) of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine created in 1990. In 1994, he founded the Electronic Policy Network, or Moving Ideas, an online public policy resource. In 1993, Starr was the senior advisor for President Bill Clinton's proposed health care reform plan. He is also the president of the Sandra Starr Foundation.[1]
At Princeton University, Starr holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Of his many publications, Starr is best known for his book The Social Transformation of American Medicine published by Basic Books in 1983.
Education and personal life[edit]
Starr earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1978.[2][3]
Starr's first wife, Sandra Starr, died in 1998.[2] Currently, Starr lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is married to Ann Baynes Coiro. He has four children and three stepchildren.[2]