Lee A. Makela

Associate Professor of East Asian History, Emeritus
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio,, USA

PhD (East Asian History), Stanford University; thirty-eight years university teaching experience at CSU;
Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, Cleveland State University, October 2001

Email:l.makela@csuohio.edu
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• “From Metropolis to Metroporisu: the Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema”, a chapter in Mark W. MacWilliams, editor, Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008)
• “Teaching the Postmodern Using Examples from Japanese Film and Popular Culture” in ASIANetwork EXCHANGE: a Newsletter for Teaching About Asia, (Spring 2003)
• "From the Classroom to the Web", an article describing the development of an Internet-based student exercise on Japanese geography, appearing in the Fall 1998 issue of Education About Asia
• "The National Origins Act of 1924", a chapter in Hyung-chan Kim, editor, 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)]
• 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)

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; reprinted in IATEFL Newsletter [Integrating Global Education into Language Teaching issue], March 1999).