Kevin W. Fogg is a scholar of Islam in Southeast Asia and the Associate Director of the Carolina Asia Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He previously taught at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of History, Brasenose College, and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, USA, he earned a BA from Duke University in History and Asian and African Languages and Literatures (now Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). He then continued his studies at Yale University, where he earned an MA, MPhil, and PhD in History, also working closely with the Council on Southeast Asia Studies.
In Indonesia, Dr. Fogg’s research has been sponsored by the American-Indonesian Exchange Foundation (including both the Fulbright Research Grant from the US Department of State and the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship), the British Academy, and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. His local counterparts include the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Pusat Pengkajian Islam dan Masyarakat, and local Islamic organizations throughout the archipelago.
Dr. Fogg is an active member of the American Historical Association and the Association for Asian Studies (including the Southeast Conference of AAS, of which he is past-president). He also sits on the editorial boards of the journals Indonesia and the Malay World, Hunafa, and Ulumuna, and he frequently reviews articles and provides book reviews for other journals.
Besides academics, Kevin enjoys making ice cream, hiking, reading about American politics, and watching college basketball.