Inamori Distinguished Visiting Scholar: 2023-2024
Valerie Morkevi膵ius is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. Her work focuses on the intersection between strategy and ethics, and the applicability of traditional just war thinking to contemporary challenges. She is the author of Realist Ethics: Just War Traditions as Power Politics (Cambridge 2018). She has published in journals such as Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Military Ethics, and International Studies Quarterly. Her most recent research explores the ethical implications of disinformation and artificial intelligence.
Inamori Distinguished Visiting Scholar: 2022-2023
Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin
Pauline Shanks Kaurin is Professor and Admiral James B. Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University and specializes in military ethics, 鈥渏ust war theory,鈥 and philosophy of law and applied ethics. She is author of 鈥淥n Obedience: Contrasting Philosophies for Military, Community and Citizenry鈥 and 鈥淎chilles Goes Asymmetrical: The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare.鈥 She served as a contributor for The Strategy Bridge and has published in War on the Rocks, Clear Defense, The Wavell Room, Grounded Curiosity, Newsweek, and Just Security. She is a member and serves on the board of directors for the Military Writers Guild.
Inamori Emerging Visiting Scholar: 2020-2021, 2025
Dr. Jonathan Flint French
Dr. Jonathan Flint French earned his Ph.D. in Strategic Studies in 2017 from the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, writing on, 鈥淪trategic Restraint: Modeling the Role of Moral Weight in Modern Conflicts.鈥 He presented on 鈥淢iscalculating Moral Mass: Moral Cowardice and Strategic Failures in the Kosovo Campaign鈥 at the 2015 Military Ethics Education Network conference, on 鈥淐ognitive Dissonance and Warrior Moral Injury鈥 at the 2016 ISME conference, 鈥淏eyond Hearts and Minds: The Individual and Strategic Advantages of Ethical Conduct in Counter-Insurgency Campaigns,鈥 at the 2016 Euro-ISME conference, and on 鈥淲hen Things Go Wrong: Genocide, War Crimes, and Other Atrocities,鈥 for a plenary session of the 2019 U.S. Army Ethics Symposium at the US Command and General Staff College.
Inamori Distinguished Visiting Scholar: 2018-2019
Dr. David Whetham
Dr. David Whetham is Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession in the Defence Studies Department of King鈥檚 College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the UK Defence Academy where he coordinates or delivers the military ethics component of courses for between two and three thousand British and international officers a year. In Spring 2011, David was a Visiting Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, Annapolis, and in 2009, David was a Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics at the Australian Defence College in Canberra. In 2014-16, he is a Visiting Fellow and project partner with the University of Glasgow. He is also a regular visiting lecturer in military ethics at the Baltic Defence College, the Military Academy in Belgrade and for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces. Publications include Ethics, Law and Military Operations (Palgrave, 2010), Just Wars and Moral Victories (Brill, 2009) and with Andrea Ellner & Paul Robinson (Eds), When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military (Ashgate: 2014). David is the Vice President of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics (Euro ISME) which holds an annual conference for military practitioners, academics and defence policy-makers.
Inamori Distinguished Visiting Scholar: 2017-2018
Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr
In 2017-18, the Inamori Center welcomed its first Distinguished Visiting Inamori Scholar, Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr. Prof. Lucas is the Distinguished Chair in Ethics Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy and recently retired as Professor of Ethics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and the Stockdale Chair in Ethics at the Naval War College. He has taught at Georgetown University, Emory University, Randolph-Macon College, the French Military Academy (Saint-Cyr), and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.