Michael Lee
Professor @College of Charleston
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WORK HISTORY
Professor @College of Charleston
As a scholar, I am interested in how Americans have talked about their political identities. My first book, Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement (Michigan State, 2014) stresses that the American conservative coalition has been maintained by a common political language that conservatives developed, a language informed by a small collection of canonical post-World War II books. Creating Conservatism won five national book awards. My second book, We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 (Oxford, 2022, co-authored with R. Jarrod Atchison), examines the symbols of separatism among five varied ideological groups (the Confederacy, Black nationalists, libertarians, lesbian communalists, and the Latter-day Saints) since the nation’s founding. As a teacher, I have been highly invested in shaping all aspects of the student experience of communication. In addition to teaching the communication studies tradition to early majors in the yearlong eloquence course, I have also consistently taught advanced courses in political communication including political campaigns, American politics and the mass media, media literacy, and citizenship and the public sphere.
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Speech Communication and Rhetoric
The University of Georgia
Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government
University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Master's degree, Communication and Media Studies
ABOUT MICHAEL LEE
Michael J. Lee is the director of the Civility Initiative and a professor of communication at the College of Charleston. The Civility Initiative teaches healthy disagreement and dialogue across differences through workshops, speakers, book talks, panels, debates, film screenings, and more. He hosts When We Disagree, a podcast about the role of conflict in all of our lives. His research focuses on political identity in American politics. His research has earned over a dozen awards including five national book awards for his first book, Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement. His latest book is We Are Not One People: Separatism and Secession in American Politics Since 1776.
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