Charles M. Lamb is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo. Before coming to UB, he was a research scientist at George Washington University and a fair housing specialist at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics (Cambridge University Press). He has also published in professional journals and co-edited four books: Supreme Court Activism and Restraint (Lexington Books); Implementation of Civil Rights Policy (Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.); Judicial Conflict and Consensus: Behavioral Studies of American Appellate Courts (University Press of Kentucky); and The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles (University of Illinois Press).

• PhD, Political Science, University of Alabama
• MA, Political Science, University of Alabama
• BS, Political Science, Middle Tennessee State University (highest honors)

A book entitled Presidents, Bureaucracy, and Fair Housing in America.

• PSC 101 – Introduction to American Politics
• PSC 211 – Issues in Contemporary Politics
• PSC 215 – Law and the Political Process
• PSC 301 – Cases in Civil Liberties
• PSC 302 – Protecting Civil Liberties
• PSC 303 – Constitutional Law
• PSC 305 – Judicial Politics
• PSC 314 – Public Policy Making
• PSC 324 – Politics of Housing
• PSC 401 – Advanced Civil Liberties
• PSC 480 – Advanced Constitutional Law
• PSC 506 – Policy Making Process
• PSC 561 – Constitutional Law
• PSC 562 – Constitutional Law II
• PSC 662 – Judicial Process
• PSC 668 – Public Policy Problems
• PSC 675 – Implementing Civil Rights
• PSC 761 – American Political Frontiers

• “Cooperative Federalism and Fair Housing Enforcement,” Social Science Quarterly (forthcoming) (with Charles S. Bullock III and Eric M. Wilk).
• “School and Housing Segregation,” in David L. Leal, Taeku Lee, and Mark Sawyer, eds., The Oxford Handbook on Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)(Oxford Handbooks Online)(with Charles S. Bullock III)(book version forthcoming).
• “Fair Housing Enforcement in the South and Non-South,” Social Science Quarterly 96:941-954(2015) (with Charles S. Bullock III and Eric M.Wilk).
• “Administrative Law Judges in Fair Housing Enforcement: Attitudes, Case Facts, and Political Control,” Social Science Quarterly 94: 362-378 (2013) (with Nicholas R. Seabrook and Eric M. Wilk).
• “Do Presidents Control Bureaucracy? The Federal Housing Administration during the Truman-Eisenhower Era,” Political Science Quarterly 127: 445-67 (2012) (with Adam W. Nye).
• “Federalism, Efficiency, and Civil Rights Enforcement,” Political Research Quarterly 64: 392-404 (2011) (with Eric M. Wilk).
• “Civil Rights, Federalism, and the Administrative Process: Favorable Outcomes by Federal, State, and Local Agencies in Housing Discrimination Complaints,” Public Administration Review 70: 412-421 (2010). (with Eric M. Wilk).