Michael Lee

Michael J. Lee teaches and writes in the areas of communication effectiveness at the College of Charleston. His award-winning research focuses on branding, identity, and audience responsiveness. He is the author of We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement (Michigan State University Press, 2014). In the classroom, Michael teaches courses in persuasion, including storytelling, message design, public speaking, argumentation, political campaigns, media and politics, and many others.