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July 10th
BPC professor Cheek to be featured on PBS
July 10th
The PBS show “History Detectives” will
return in 2006 for its fourth season, with 11 exciting new episodes, including
the one featuring Dr. Lee Cheek,
professor of Political Science and Philosophy and chair of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences Division at Brewton-Parker College.
The episode is scheduled to air Monday, July 10 at 9:00 p.m.
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| Dr. Lee Cheek (right),
chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division and professor of
Political Science and Philosophy at Brewton-Parker College, is interviewed
by Dr. Gwen Wright, a professor at Columbia University and co-host for
PBS' "History Detectives" for a segment on John C. Calhoun
that will air July 10. The interview took place at a former plantation
site in South Carolina, one burned by Union forces led by Gen. William
T. Sherman during the Civil War. (Photo by Lincoln Farr, PBS) |
The hosts of the program are a high-energy
quartet of renowned figures in the world of historical investigations. Cheek
was interviewed by
one of the hosts,
Dr. Gwen Wright, a professor of architecture, planning and preservation
and professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.
The show in which Cheek is featured concerned
the political thinking of John C. Calhoun, who was a member of the House
(1811-17), secretary of
war (1817-25),
vice president (1825-32), Senator (1832-43, 1845-50) and secretary of
state (1844-45). Cheek is an internationally respected expert on Calhoun
and
American political thought.
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); and Order and Legitimacy (Transaction/Rutgers,
2004).
He has also published numerous journal
articles in publications like the Journal of Politics, Methodist History,
International Social Science
Review,
and is
a regular commentator on American politics. Cheek’s current
research includes completing an intellectual biography of Francis
Graham Wilson and
a study of the American Founding.
He currently serves on the editorial board
of Humanitas and The University Bookman, and has served as a Fellow of the
Wilbur Foundation, the
Center for Judicial Studies, and the Center for International Media
Studies.
Cheek lives in Vidalia with his wife, Kathy
B. Cheek, an accomplished teacher of dance and the owner of the Savannah
Conservatory of
Dance.
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