About Lee Cheek
H. Lee Cheek, Jr., Ph.D., is Senior Contributor at
The Imaginative Conservative and Professor of Political Science and the former Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at East Georgia State College. He received his bachelor's degree from Western Carolina University, his M.Div. from Duke University, his M.P.A. from Western Carolina University, and his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. He previously served as Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of North Georgia; as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Athens State University in Alabama; and Vice-President for College Advancement and Professor of Political Science at Brewton-Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Georgia. Dr. Cheek taught at Brewton-Parker College from 1997-2000, and from 2005-2009. He is also a United Methodist minister and former U.S. Army chaplain. His books include
Calhoun and Popular Rule and
Confronting Modernity, among others.