Hamilton Gazetteer / Entities / Michael Klosson

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Overview

Michael Klosson is a diplomat, humanitarian, and Hamilton College alumnus (class of 1971) from Chevy Chase, MD. After graduating from Hamilton and earning graduate degrees from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, he pursued a career in diplomacy and international affairs. He later returned to Hamilton as the Sol M. Linowitz Professor of International Affairs, joining the faculty in 2006.

Relevance to Research

The 1970-71 and 1971-72 course catalogs list him as a student from Chevy Chase, MD, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. The Spectator of 1970 (spec-1970-10-09 and spec-1970-11-07) identifies him as a member of student committees, including the Committee on Resources and Development. The spec-1971-04-09 reports that he was named a Herbert H. Lehman Graduate Fellowship winner in Social Sciences and Public and International Affairs, with up to $5,000 per year for four years of graduate study beginning in September 1971. The spec-1971-04-16 describes him as Chairman of Pre-Freshman Weekend, organizing the spring 1971 visit for admitted students. The yhm-arc-pub-cat-2006-07 identifies him as “Sol M. Linowitz Professor of International Affairs” with an A.B. from Hamilton, M.P.A. and M.P. from Princeton, and lists him teaching a seminar on U.S.-China relations. The 2020-21 and 2021-22 catalogs continue to list him on the faculty, with his hire year noted as 2006.

Notes

No significant disambiguation issues. The corpus references are consistent with a single person across the student period (1970-71) and the faculty period (2006 onward).