LEE A. MAKELA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EAST ASIAN HISTORY, EMERITUS

OFFICE: RT 1302
OFFICE HOURS: TTh 12:00 NOON - 12:30 PM and by appointment
OFFICE PHONE: 216.875.9687
E-MAIL:l.makela@csuohio.edu

CURRENT COURSE: HIS 272H, Cultural Interactions: Japan

BA (History and Latin, 1963), Carroll College (now Carroll University), Waukesha, Wisconsin;
PhD (East Asian History, 1973), Stanford University, Stanford, California

THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS experience as instructor in courses on Chinese and Japanese history and culture at Cleveland State University between 1971 and 2009; awarded Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, October 2001; developed Educational Resource Evaluation Site: "Teaching (and Learning) About Japan", established February 1995 and in August 1999 chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as one of the year's twenty-four best educational web sites and placed on the NEH EdSITEment listing of the best humanities web sites in history; also recommended by Argus Clearinghouse at the University of Michigan (1996), EdHelper.com (2000) and the Encyclopedia Britannia (2006); between 1980 and 2005, served for twenty-five years as Study Leader for the Smilithsonian Institution Travel Seminars to Japan; Visiting Scholar and Interim Resident Director, September – December 1996, Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Shiga, Japan, and Visiting Scholar, September – December 2003 .

PRICIPLE PUBLICATIONS:

• “From Metropolis to Metropolis and Beyond: the Soul in the Machine in Japanese and Western Film”, a book chapter included as part of a book-length anthology, Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime, edited by Mark McWilliams (M.E.Sharpe - East Gate Book, 2008);
• “Teaching the Postmodern Using Examples from Japanese Film and Popular Culture”, ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: a Newsletter for Teaching About Asia, Spring 2003 (Vol.X, No.3), pages 13 – 20;
• "From the Classroom to the Web: Developing a Visual Literacy Exercise on Japanese Geography", Education About Asia, Fall 1998 (Volume 3, Number 2), pages 51 - 53;.
• Co-author (with Dianne L. Smith and Heidi Makela), "Considering Controversial Issues in the Classroom and Beyond" in Ohio Council for the Social Studies Review (Summer 1996);
• a series of encyclopedia entries ("Alien Land Law of 1913," "Alien Land Law of 1920," "Reischauer, Edwin O.," and "McClatchy, Valentine S.") in Asian American Encyclopedia (Salem Press, 1995) and...
• a chapter entitled "The National Origins Act of 1924" in Asian Americans and Congress: A Documentary History (Greenwood Press, 1995). Reprinted in Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai, editors, Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003).