Dean Contributes to International Festschrift

EGSC’s Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Dr. Lee Cheek, recently contributed a book chapter to a volume honoring the life and scholarship of Dr. Tom Darby, an internationally respected political scientist on the faculty of Carleton University in Canada. The book was announced at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, and is being published next month by Fermentation Press, a leading publisher in the social sciences, located in Quebec, Canada.
   Cheek’s chapter in the collection, entitled “Confronting Nihilism: Towards a Political Theory of the Psalms,” continues a decade of scholarship by Cheek on the political meaning of the Psalms.  According to Cheek, the “writer [of the Psalms] is a political and spiritual reformer who argues that life can have meaning.  The Psalmist is no longer a messenger of the divine reality, but an actual participant. Most importantly, the psalmist urges a spirit of restraint in social and political life.”
   Before assuming his duties at EGSC, Dr. Cheek 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. 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   award 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); a monograph on Wesleyan theology (Wesley Studies Society, 2010); an edition of the classic study, A Theory of Public Opinion (Transaction/Rutgers, 2013); Patrick-Henry Onslow Debate: Liberty and Republicanism in American Political Thought (Lexington, 2013); and, The Founding of the American Republic (Bloomsbury, 2017). He has also published dozens of scholarly articles in academic publications, and is a regular commentator on American politics and religion. Dr. Cheek’s current research includes completing an intellectual biography of Francis Graham Wilson (I.S.I. Books), and a book on Patrick Henry's constitutionalism and political theory. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Humanitas, The Political Science Reviewer, Anamnesis, and The University Bookman, as a Senior Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, 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.

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