University of South Carolina

A lecture by Prof. Michael Lamb (Wake Forest University)

Friday, February 2nd

3:00 PM

Wardlaw 126

This lecture is free and open to the public. If you can't make it to the lecture, make sure to listen to the recording after it is published on the Thomistic Institute podcast.

About the Speaker:

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 an Associate 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. A recipient of teaching awards from Oxford, Princeton, and Wake Forest, his research and teaching focus on leadership, character, and the role of virtues in public life. He is the author of A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought (2022), which offers a bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its relevance for politics. He is also a co-editor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life (2019). He is the principal investigator on a $30 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the education of character at Wake Forest and other U.S. colleges and universities.