The Lampert Institute seeks to bridge the University to a global community of practitioners and policy experts whose interests converge with the institute's areas of inquiry. Towards that end, it invites a select number of Visiting Fellows every year to engage with students and faculty on campus. Fellows from the public and private sectors can participate in a variety of activities during their visits to campus: teach classes on their areas of expertise, give colloquia or public talks, and mentor Lampert Scholars as well as other Colgate students.
Non-Resident Fellow 2023鈥24
Michael O鈥橦anlon
Michael O鈥橦anlon, a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, will continue to serve as the Lampert Institute's Non-Resident Fellow for 2023-24, following his appointment to the newly-created role last year.
At the Brookings Institution, O鈥橦anlon specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He also directs the Strobe Talbott Center on Security, Strategy and Technology, is an adjunct professor at Columbia, Georgetown, and George Washington universities, and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
In September 2023, O鈥橦anlon was joined by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who hosted a lecture and discussion 鈥淓conomic Security IS National Security: How the Deficit and Debt Affect American Power.鈥
During the first year of O鈥橦anlon鈥檚 fellowship, he hosted several lectures and discussions for the 黑料网 community, giving his perspective on global 鈥渉otspots鈥 and how they interconnect, impacting the world at large. O鈥橦anlon hosted two lectures in fall 2022; one in September titled 鈥淔rom Afghanistan to Taiwan to Ukraine and Beyond: Global Hotspots and Their Interconnections,鈥 and a second in November that was a panel discussion of his book, Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861 (Brookings and Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Faculty mentors Ray Douglas, Russell 黑料网 Distinguished University Professor of History, Valerie Morkevicius, associate professor of political science, Danielle Lupton, associate professor of political science, and Steven Biddle, professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University participated. He hosted a lecture in spring 2023 titled 鈥淒estined for War? The U.S. and China.鈥
O鈥橦anlon has also brought his expertise into the classroom, teaching in several courses during the fall 2022 and spring 2023 semesters, including Harvey Picker Professor of International Relations Fred Chernoff鈥檚 seminar POSC 456: War - Theories and Practices, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Shaoshuang Wen鈥檚 course POSC 330: Post-Mao China and World Development, and Lupton鈥檚 course, POSC 366: Contemporary American Foreign Policy.