Biography
Dr. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., is
Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs and
Professor of Political Science at
Athens
State University in Athens, Alabama. 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.
From 2008-2009, Dr. Cheek served
as Vice President for College Advancement at
Brewton-Parker College. Dr. Cheek taught at
Brewton-Parker College from 1997-2000, and from 2005-2009. In 2000,
2006, and
2007,
the
student body of Brewton-Parker College selected Cheek as Professor of
the Year; and, in
2008, the
Jordon
Excellence in Teaching was bestowed upon him by the College's faculty
and administration. From 2000 to 2005, Dr. Cheek
served as Associate Professor of Political Science at Lee University.
In 2002, Dr. Cheek was given
Lee University’s Excellence in Scholarship award;
and in 2004, he received
Lee University's Excellence in Advising award.
In 2008,
Western Carolina University
presented Dr. Cheek with the University's
Distinguished Alumni Award for
Academic and Professional Achievement.
He has also
been a
congressional aide and a political consultant. Dr. Cheek's
books include
Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal
(Transaction/Rutgers,
2001, with Kathy B. Cheek);
Calhoun and Popular Rule, published by the
University of Missouri Press (2001;
paper edition, 2004);
Calhoun: Selected Speeches and Writings
(Regnery, 2003);
Order and Legitimacy (Transaction/Rutgers,
2004); an edition of Calhoun's
A Disquisition on Government (St. Augustine's, 2007); a critical edition of W. H. Mallock's
The Limits of Pure Democracy (Transaction/Rutgers,
2007); and a monograph on
Wesleyan theology (Wesley
Studies Society, 2010). He has also published dozens of scholarly articles in publications
like the Journal of Politics,
Methodist History,
International Social Science Review,
Hebraic Political Studies, and is a regular commentator on
American politics. Dr. Cheek’s current research includes completing an
intellectual biography of
Francis Graham Wilson (I.S.I. Books), a study of the American Founding, and
a book on Patrick Henry's constitutionalism and political theory.
Dr. Cheek is also the Founder and Director of the Wesley Studies
Society. He currently serves on the editorial boards of
Humanitas,
The Political Science Reviewer, and
The University Bookman, as a Senior Fellow of the
Alexander Hamilton
Institute for the Study
of Western Civilization, and as a Fellow of the Academy of
Philosophy and Letters (elected). Cheek has been a Fellow of the
Wilbur Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Center for Judicial Studies, and the Center for
International Media Studies.
Dr. Cheek lives in
Athens, Alabama, with his wife,
Kathy B. Cheek, and their cats,
Sophie
and
Mr. Macavity.


