About: Charles Haynie

Charles Haynie (1935–2001) was a long-time faculty member in the State University of New York at Buffalo's Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Programs until his death in 2001. He provided advisement, taught statistics, and engaged students in a range of popular courses about grass roots organizing for social change, 20th century political movements, the environment, and social justice. Haynie graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Engineering Physics and in 1959 entered its graduate program in Mathematics. His specialty was the Lie algebras. His involvement in the social justice movements of the 1960s kept him from completing his graduate work. Nonetheless, math education continued to an active interest of his.