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Ambassador Lemmon joined the Near East South Asia Center faculty as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor in October 2008 after serving 34 years with the Department of State as a career Foreign Service Officer. He was on the faculty of the National War College from 2005-2008 and served as Deputy Commandant and International Affairs Advisor his final year. While on the NWC Faculty, he developed and taught a new two-semester elective on “Understanding Islam and Islamic Worldviews” and helped introduce a new course on “Arabic Cultural Literacy.” Ambassador Lemmon is an advocate for foreign language and international education and chaired a panel composed of DOD’s Regional Centers at the 2007 DOD Summit “Regional and Cultural Expertise: Building a DOD Framework to Meet National Defense Challenges.” He has been a member of DOD’s National Security Education Program (NSEP) “Flagship Language Taskforce;” NSEP’s Boren Fellows National Selection Committee; the National Academies of Science Committee Review of Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs; and the Committee on Economic Development study group on U.S. business needs in these areas. He is a Board Member of a newly-established non-profit the Language Flagship Group. |
Michael Lemmon, Distinguished Adjunct Professor |
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