Carl Lankowski
Carl Lankowski left his home town of Milford, Connecticut in 1967 to become an undergraduate at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. After initial military training, he spent most of the 1970s shuttling between Manhattan and Europe as a Columbia University graduate student and earned a PhD in Political Science with a dissertation on Germany’s role in the European Communities. After serving on the faculties of several colleges and universities between 1978 and 1995, he became research director at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. In the waning weeks of the Clinton Administration Lankowski became director of the European area studies program at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. In volunteer capacities he served as president of the Aachen committee of the Arlington Sister City Association and Historic Chevy Chase DC.
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