Dr. Wayne E. Lee, Ph.D.

Dr. Wayne Lee is a professor of history and the 2025–26 Charles Boal Ewing Chair of Military History in the Department of History & War Studies at the United States Military Academy.

He is a distinguished professor of history at the University of North Carolina, where he has taught since 2006. Dr. Lee specializes in world military history and has written on subjects ranging from the role of violence in human evolution to Ottoman fortifications, Mongol logistics and the American Revolution.

Dr. Lee received his doctorate from Duke University in 1999. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat engineer. He has also taught at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.