Frank H. Golay
Author · 2 books
Frank Hindman Golay was an American economist and scholar. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1951, then worked for the Federal Reserve Board. In 1953 he joined the faculty of Cornell University as an assistant professor of economics and Asian studies. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1960. He was named chair of the Cornell Department of Economics in 1963, and held that position until 1967. He taught at the University of London's famed School of Oriental and African Studies as a visiting professor on a Fulbright grant in 1965-66. He was awarded an honorary L.L.D. degree by Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines in 1966 as well. Later, as a recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of the Philippines in 1973-74. He also received fellowships from the Henry Luce foundation, Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities during the course of his career. Between 1970 and 1976, Dr. Golay led the renowned Cornell Southeast Asia Program. After his retirement from Cornell in 1981, he went on to be named as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1985.
