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Institute Director


Meet our Director


Dr. Daniel Lake

Dr. Daniel Lake, associate professor of political science at SUNY Plattsburgh, has been serving as the director of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life since fall 2022.

Dr. Lake is a past institute fellow who teaches a variety of courses on topics such as American democracy, American foreign policy, the politics of ethnicity and race, international relations, war, and international security. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Lake is author of The Pursuit of Technological Superiority and the Shrinking American Military, published by Palgrave-MacMillan in 2019. 

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