Dr. Lee Walker is currently Associate Chair and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas.  Dr. Walker has also served as Program Director at the National Science Foundation and on the political science faculties at the University of South Carolina and the University of Kentucky.

His research areas include comparative politics, comparative democratization, comparative judicial politics, Latin American politics, and research methods. He has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Electoral Studies, and Party Politics.