Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is also a Research Fellow with the Oxford Character Project.
He holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, a B.A. in political science from Rhodes College, and a second B.A. in philosophy and theology from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
His research focuses on the ethics of citizenship and the role of virtues in public life. He is the author of A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2022) and a co-editor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life (Georgetown University Press, 2019).
Books in order of publication:
A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2022)
of Cultivating Virtue in the University (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life (Georgetown University Press, 2019)
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