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Curriculum Vitae
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.
Vice President for College Advancement and
Professor of Political Science
Brewton-Parker
College
Mt. Vernon, GA 30445
(912) 583-3256/FAX: (912) 583-4498
E-mail: lcheek@bpc.edu
Education
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America, 1998.
M.P.A., Western Carolina University, 1988.
-Concentration in organizational theory and public budgeting
-Thesis: "The Range of Services Among Public and Private Hospitals in
North Carolina"
Advanced studies, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, 1987.
-Concentration in international politics and European political systems
M.Div., Duke University, 1986; with
additional study, 1992-1994.
B.A., Western Carolina University, 1983.
-Double major in political science and history
Fellowships and Grants
-Brewton-Parker College Senior
Faculty Research Grant, 2006-2007.
-Horowitz Foundation for Social
Policy Grant, 2004-2005.
-Earhart Foundation Senior
Research Grant, 2001-2002; 2002-2003; 2005-2006.
-Lee University Faculty Research
Grant, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
-Appalachian College Association
Travel Grant, November 2002.
-Edward Artinian Award, Southern
Political Science Association, 1999.
-Hayek Fund Grant, Institute for
Humane Studies, George Mason University, September 1999.
-Crossroads Doctoral Scholar
Program, Crossroads/E.S.A., 1997-1999.
-Fellow, Institute for Humane
Studies, George Mason University, 1994-1995.
-Richard M. Weaver Graduate
Fellowship, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1993-1994.
-Henry Salvatori Dissertation
Fellowship, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1991-1992.
-Wilbur Foundation Literary
Fellow, Summer 1990 and 1991.
-Graduate Teaching Assistantship
and tuition waiver, The Catholic University of America, 1988-1991.
-Graduate Teaching
Assistantship, Western Carolina University, 1986-1988.
-Wilbur Foundation Research
Grant, 1984-1985, and 2000-2001.
-United States Information
Agency/United States Youth Council Delegation
to Western Europe, 1984.
-Duke Divinity School Field
Education Grant, Duke University, 1983 and 1991.
-Harold Rogers Political Science
Award, Western Carolina University, 1983.
-Lyndon Baines Johnson
Fellowship, United States House of Representatives, 1982.
-Paul A. Reid Scholarship,
Western Carolina University, 1979 and 1983.
Academic Honors
-Distinguished
Alumni Award for Academic and Professional Achievement, Western
Carolina
University, 2008.
-University Honors College Faculty, Lee
University, 2002-2005.
-Lee University Excellence in Scholarship
Award, 2002 (university-wide competition; single recipient annually).
-Pi Sigma
Alpha, National Political Science Honorary Society, 2002.
-Who's Who in America, 2002.
-Who's Who in the World, 2001.
-Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1988.
-Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1983.
-Pi Gamma Mu, Social Science Honorary Society, 1983.
Teaching
Interests
American Political Thought
American Political Development
Public Administration
Ethics and Government
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American Government
Constitutional Law
Political Theory
Organizational Theory
Congress and Presidency |
Occupational Experience
Vice
President for College Advancement; and Professor of Political Science
and
Philosophy,
Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA, November 2008-present.
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Chief
Development Office of the College, reporting to the President and
working under minimal direction. |
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Manage the supervising
divisional functions and responsibilities |
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Exercising general
discretionary powers in management of the institution. |
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Serve as senior college
administrator for planning, supervising, managing, and overseeing
the budget requirements, operations, and staff of Alumni Relations,
Development, Annual Fund and Gifts. |
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Secure major gifts and
grants. |
Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division; and Professor of
Political Science, Brewton-Parker
College, Mt. Vernon, GA, June 2005-present.
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Responsible for all aspects of
administering a ten person division on a main campus and at
six external sites, including the
planning, scheduling, and administration of the overall
academic program; recruitment and
retention of faculty; divisional budgeting;
and strategic
planning and assessment. |
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Member,
Vice-President For Enrollment Services and Education Chair search
committees, 2006-2007. |
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Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Academic
Integrity, 2006-present.
Authored and
successfully implemented new academic integrity plan. |
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Jordon Excellence in
Teaching Award, 2008 (selected by faculty and administration).
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Professor of the Year, 2006-2007 academic year (elected by student
body). |
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Professor of the Year, 2005-2006 academic year (elected by student
body). |
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Creator and Director, Faculty Mentoring
Program. |
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Awarded tenure, January 2006. |
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Faculty Marshal, 2005-2006 (elected);
and 2006-2007 (re-elected). |
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Chair, General Education Committee (Assessment),
2005-present. |
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Member, Academic Council. |
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Member, Appeals Committee. |
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Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee. |
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College Pre-law Liaison, 2005-present. |
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Liaison, American Council for Education
(“Solutions for Our Future” Program). |
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Advisor, College Democrats and College
Republicans. |
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Organized and Implemented Washington
Practicum Program, 2005-present. |
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Advisor, Pi Gamma Mu International Social
Science Honor Society. |
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Directed, secured funding, and implemented
two national conferences each year on the
American Founding for high school,
community college, and university faculty. |
Associate Professor, Political Science, Lee
University, Cleveland, TN, June 2000-June 2005
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Chair,
University Faculty Council, 2004-2005 (elected). |
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Lee University Excellence in Advising Award, 2004 (university-wide
competition; single recipient annually). |
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University
Exceptional Classroom Performance Merit Stipend, 2003-2005. |
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Member, University Academic Council,
2003-2004 (elected). |
 | Awarded Tenure, January 2003. |
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University Excellence in Scholarship Award, 2002
(university-wide competition; single recipient annually).
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 | Co-Advisor, College Democrats and
Republicans, Society for Law and Justice, and Philosophy Club. |
 | Elected Member, University Faculty
Council, 2002-2003 (elected). |
 | Member, University Curriculum
Committee, 2000-2002. |
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Campus Pre-law
Liaison, 2001-2005. |
 | Political Science Discipline
Coordinator, 2002-present. |
 | Founder and Faculty Advisor, Pi Sigma
Alpha, Political Science Honor Society |
 | Fox News Political
Consultant. |
 | Celebration 2000 Speaker. |
 | Psychology Search Committee Member,
Spring 2001. |
 | Snell Lecture Committee, 2000-2001. |
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Developed four-semester political theory course sequence. |
 | Directed, secured funding, and
implemented two national conferences each year on the American
Founding for high school, community college, and university faculty. |
Interim Chair, Division of Social and
Behavioral Sciences, and Assistant Professor of Political Science and
Philosophy, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA, May-June 2000.
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA, 1997-June 2000
Director, Institutional Self Study for
the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaccreditation,
Brewton-Parker College, 1998-2000.
Founder and Director, Wesley Studies Society, 1992-present.
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Plan and host yearly academic conference. |
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Serve as editor and publisher of the
Society's quarterly, The Aldersgate. |
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Raise funds throughout the Southeast for
the Society. |
North Carolina
History Project Scholar, The John Locke Institute, Raleigh, NC, July
2006-
present.
Senior Fellow, The
Alexander Hamilton Center for the Study of Western Civilization,
Hamilton,
NY, 2008-present.
Previous Positions
-Director of Institutional Research, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon,
GA, September 1997-August 1999.
-Political Science Instructor, Humanities Division, Rockingham Community
College, Wentworth, NC, November 1996-May 1997.
-Academic Sabbatical, The United Methodist Church, June 1996-June 1997.
-Senior Pastor, Bethel United Methodist Church, Stokesdale, NC, June
1994-June 1996.
-Pastor, Ruffin United Methodist Church, Ruffin, NC, February 1991-June
1994.
-Director, The Washington Practicum, Department of Politics, The
Catholic University of America, June 1990-August 1991.
-Assistant Director, International Media Studies Program, The Catholic
University of America, 1990-1992.
-Editor, Humanitas, National Humanities Institute, 1988-May 1992.
-Program Coordinator, Mayor's Youth Leadership Institute, District of
Columbia, Summer 1990.
-Visiting Fellow, Center for Judicial Studies, Summer 1989.
-Visiting Instructor, Department of Political Science and Public
Affairs, Western Carolina University, Summer 1988.
-Research Assistant, North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research,
1987.
-Senior Literary Fellow, Wilbur Foundation, 1984-1985.
-Staff Assistant to Congressman William Hendon, U.S. House of
Representatives, Washington, DC, 1982.
Publications and Presentations
Books
Republicanism
and Liberty in American Political Thought.
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2008 (with
Carey M. Roberts and Sean R. Busick).
Calhoun, John C.
A Disquisition on Government.
South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, 2006 (Edited and
supplied critical introduction).
Mallock, W. H.
Democracy. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction
Publishers/Rutgers University,
2006
(Edited and supplied
critical introduction).
Editor, Critical Assessments
of Calhoun, 1811-2000. Three volumes. London: Thoemmes Press,
2006-2007.
The Development of Modern
Political Theory.
South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2007
(with Richard Bishirjian).
Francis Graham Wilson and the
American Political Mind.
Dover, Delaware: Intercollegiate
Studies Institute, 2007
[part of the “Modern Thinkers” series].
(http://www.moxzi.com/folio/isibooks/books/lomt.html)
Calhoun and Popular Rule.
Paper edition. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press,
July 2004.
Order and Legitimacy: The
Spanish Political Mind.
New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Transaction
Publishers-Rutgers University, July
2004 (edited with M. Susan Power, Kathy B. Cheek, and
Thomas Metallo).
Calhoun: Selected Writings and
Speeches.
Washington, D.C.: Regnery Books, 2003.
Calhoun and Popular Rule: The
Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse.
Columbia
and London: University of
Missouri Press, June 2001.
(http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/fall2004/cheek.htm)
-Finalist for the Genovese
Award, The Historical Society; nominated for the Merle Curti Award
in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians;
the D. B. Hardeman Prize, Lyndon
Baines Johnson Foundation; the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political
Science Association; and the V.
O. Key Book Award of the Southern Political Science
Association.
-Selected by the Southern
Political Science Association as the subject of a panel discussion,
Savannah, Georgia, November 2002.
Political Philosophy and
Cultural Renewal.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers/Rutgers University,
2001 (edited with M. Susan
Power and Kathy B. Cheek).
Book Chapters, Articles
and Reviews
(partial listing)
“Faith and Order: Psalm 73 as
Political Theory.” In the Journal of the Georgia Philological
Association, Volume 2
(2008).
“Recovering Moses: The
Contribution of Eric Voegelin and Contemporary Political Science.”
In Hebraic Political
Studies, Volume 1, Number 4 (Summer 2006).
“William Richardson Davie.” In
The Encyclopedia of
the American Revolutionary War: A Political,
Social, and Military
History, eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson. Santa
Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
“Franklin Pierce in the American
Political Mind.” Book chapter in Franklin Pierce Reconsidered,
ed. Michael Connolly.
Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, forthcoming.
“Jonathan Boucher.” In
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Writers of the American Revolution,
ed.
Sean Busick. Detroit: Gale
Publishers, 2006.
“Recovering Popular Rule:
Calhoun, Sectional Conflict, and Modern America.” In Journal of
Libertarian Studies,
Volume 16, Number 2 (Spring 2002).
“Agrarianism and Cultural
Renewal.” In The University Bookman, Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring
2002.
“Articles of Confederation” and
“Daniel Webster.” In the
Encyclopedia of American Law, ed.
David Schultz. New York:
Facts-on-File, Inc., 2002.
“Calhoun
and His Critics.”
Telos, Number 118 (March 2001).
Five articles in The
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. Santa Barbara and Oxford:
ABC-CLIO, 2000.
"Friedrich Engels." In
Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century,
1800-1914, ed. John
Powell. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.
"Aristotle." In The Reader's
Guide to the Social Sciences. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
"Articles of Confederation,"
"James Iredell," "Luther Martin," and the "Tenth Amendment." In The
Supreme Court.
Pasadena: Salem Press, 2000.
Twenty articles in The
Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics. Oryx Press, 1999.
[including anti-Semitism,
Deism, natural law, canon law, Pietism, Malcolm X, John
Adams, Roger Taney,
Francis Asbury, Methodism, Richard Allen, Aaron Wildavsky,
Michael Walzer, M. E.
Bradford, Harry Jaffa, Russell Kirk, Robert Lewis Dabney,
Ralph Reed, Divine Right
of Kings, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church]
"Original Diversity: Bishops
Allen, Asbury, and Black Methodism." Methodist History, Volume
XXXV, Number 3 (April
1997).
"Politicizing Religion."
Winston-Salem Journal, March 9, 1996.
A review of James H. Cone's
Martin and Malcolm and America (New York: Maryknoll Books,
1991), in Religion and
Public Life, Volume 29 (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction
Publishers, 1995).
"Patience Against Exuberance: A
Meditation on Psalms 29 and 37." Sacramental Life, Volume 8,
Number 5 (January 1995).
"A Note on the Platonic and
Aristotelian Critique of Democratic Man." International Social
Science Review,
Volume 66, Number 2 (Spring 1991).
"The Range of Services Among
Public and Private Hospitals in North Carolina," in Comparing The
Performance of
For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals in North Carolina. Raleigh:
North
Carolina Center for Public
Policy Research, 1989 (with Marianne Kersey).
"Reclaiming the Environmental
High Ground." International Social Science Review, Volume 62,
Number 4 (Winter 1989;
with Joe Beck).
A Review of Article II: A
Guide to the North Carolina Legislature (Raleigh: North Carolina
Center
For Public Policy
Research, 1987), in The State, January 1988.
"The Problem of Ideology in
Contemporary Thought." The Lincoln Review, Volume 8, Number 1
(Fall 1987).
"Teaching Assistants: A Maligned
Lot." Winston-Salem Journal, July 18, 1987.
Conference Papers and Participation ( Partial
Listing):
Over sixty papers presented, panels chaired, et al., at the
annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the
Southern Political Science Association, the Georgia Political Science
Association, the Society of Early Americanists, the North Carolina
Political Science Association, and other professional societies from
1986 until the present. A complete list is available upon request.
Languages
German and Albanian
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References |
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Manuscript and Journal Referee
Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Social History,
and Fides et Historia, and the University of Missouri Press;
Editorial Board,
Humanitas
and
The University Bookman.
Invited Lecturer and Media
Interviews
University of Louisville, Clemson University, University of South Carolina, Western
Carolina University, St. George Tucker Society, Fox News,
PBS, Crawly Bible Institute,
and N.C. Boys State Convention.
Professional Memberships
American Political Science Association; American Society for Public
Administration; Conference on Faith and History; Eric Voegelin Society;
Georgia Political Science Association; North Carolina Political Science
Association; Order of St. Luke; Society for Albanian Studies; Society
of Early Americanists; Southern Political Science Association; and
Elder, Western N.C. Conference, The United Methodist Church.
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