About Lee Cheek and Carey Roberts

H. Lee Cheek, Jr., Ph.D., is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. He is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and History at East Georgia State College, and a Senior Fellow of Alexander Hamilton Institute. 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. Carey Roberts, Ph.D. is Online Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Liberty University. He earned a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and serves on the board of the Abbeville Institute. His most recent work is a new scholarly edition of William Gilmore Simms’ Captain John Smith: The Founder of Virginia (South Carolina Press).