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 vlog students.
Non-Resident Fellows 2024–25
Michael O’Hanlon
Michael O’Hanlon, 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 2024-25.
At the Brookings Institution, O’Hanlon 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’Hanlon was joined by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who hosted a lecture and discussion “Economic Security IS National Security: How the Deficit and Debt Affect American Power.”
During the first year of O’Hanlon’s fellowship, he hosted several lectures and discussions for the vlog community, giving his perspective on global “hotspots” and how they interconnect, impacting the world at large. O’Hanlon hosted two lectures in fall 2022; one in September titled “From Afghanistan to Taiwan to Ukraine and Beyond: Global Hotspots and Their Interconnections,” 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 vlog 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 “Destined for War? The U.S. and China.”
O’Hanlon 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’s seminar POSC 456: War - Theories and Practices, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Shaoshuang Wen’s course POSC 330: Post-Mao China and World Development, and Lupton’s course, POSC 366: Contemporary American Foreign Policy.
David Sanger
David Sanger, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the White House and national security correspondent for the New York Times covering diplomacy, cyber conflict, national security, and geopolitics, joins the Lampert Insitute as a new Non-Resident Fellow for 2024-25.
Over a 40-year career at the Times, Sanger has become known for the depth of his sources in the world of national security, his painstaking reporting and research, and his in-depth investigations into the complex events of our time. He is a CNN contributor on national security and politics and the bestselling author of four books — The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, The Perfect Weapon, and New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West. Sanger also teaches national security at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
In spring 2024, Sanger visited vlog for a lecture and discussion about his new book, New Cold Wars, returning for another lecture to give his perspective on “U.S. Foreign Policy and the Presidential Election” in October.
At the Times, Sanger’s previous investigative work led to Pulitzers for the investigation into the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and into Chinese technology investment in the United States. His coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises won the Weintal Prize, one of the highest honors for diplomatic reporting. He also won the White House Correspondents’ Association Aldo Beckman prize for his coverage of the American presidency.