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Chris Lamb has emerged as an influential teacher and scholar. He brings two decades of journalism experience to his lectures in classes such as Opinion Writing (Comm 329), Feature Writing (Comm 322), and Writing for the Mass Media (Comm 230). He also teaches Mass Media and Society (Comm 414) and has taught special topics classes called Magazine Writing and Myth, Baseball and the Meaning of Life, which he also taught as an honors course. He also taught an honors course on editorial cartooning in America.

He is the author of three books, Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training, which was published in 2004 by the University of Nebraska Press. It was published in paperback in 2006. Blackout won the 2005 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award for Best Florida Book in Minority and Ethnographic Studies. Blackout also was excerpted in the book, The Best Baseball Writing 2005. Dr. Lamb's second book, Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons was published by Columbia University Press in 2004 and issued in paperback in 2006. His third book, Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor, was published in September 2006 by Indiana University Press. He is finishing his fourth book, Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Campaign to Integrate Baseball, 1933-1945.

Dr. Lamb's research has been published in prominent academic journals, including Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism History, Newspaper Research Journal, Communication and the Law, and Telecommunication Policy. In addition, he has collaborated with three undergraduate students to present papers at national conferences. Two of those papers were later published in refereed journals.

During Spring of 2001, he organized a successful symposium on editorial cartoons and the 2000 Presidential Election on the C of C campus, which was shown on C-SPAN. He brought three additional cartoonists to campus in 2004 and 2005. During 2000, he was the scholar in residence for a series of weekend seminars on the importance of humor in American society, which was sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council. In 2006, the FHC hired him to travel the state discussing Jackie Robinson's first spring training.

Dr. Lamb has been interviewed on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Sporting News Network. He also has been interviewed by the Associated Press and Reuters news services and by newspapers and magazines such as The Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, and Washington Journalism Review.

Dr. Lamb is in his tenth year at C of C. Before that, he taught at Old Dominion University. He received his Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Bowling Green State University in 1995, his master's degree in Communications from the University of Tennessee in 1984, and his bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1980. Before entering academia, he worked as a journalist for more than ten years. He continues to write for newspapers and magazines. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek.