CURRICULUM VITAE August 2004 LEE A. MAKELA OFFICE PHONE: (216) 687-3927 3332 BRAEMAR ROAD HOME PHONE: (216) 561-2940 SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO 44120 email: l.makela@csuohio.edu EDUCATION: B. A. (Latin and history), Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1963 Ph. D. (East Asian history), Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1973 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: "Japanese Attitudes Towards the United States Immigration Act of 1924" EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: (most recent listed first) 1971 - CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY, CLEVELAND, OHIO: 1995-2003 Director of Undergraduate Education, Department of History 1977 - Associate Professor, Department of History 1988-1991 Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences 1983-1991 Faculty Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Academic Advising, College of Arts and Sciences 1971-1977 Assistant Professor, Department of History 1991 Visiting Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1971 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, DeAnza Community College, Cupertino, California 1969-1970 Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State College, Chico, California 1963-1966 Peace Corps Volunteer, Surat Thani and Bangkok, Thailand 1959-1963 Miscellaneous substitute teaching and tutoring in Latin and English in the United States and Japan
VITAE: LEE A. MAKELA / 2 PUBLICATIONS: (most recent listed first) 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 (describing the development of an Internet-based exercise on Japanese geography). Dianne L. Smith, Lee Makela and Heidi Makela, Considering Controversial Issues in the Classroom and Beyond, Ohio Council for the Social Studies Review, Summer 1996 (Volume 32, Number 1), pages 60-70. REPRINTED in IATEFL Newsletter [Integrating Global Education into Language Teaching issue], March 1999 (Issue 7), pages 14-21. An Introduction to the World of Manga and Anime, Bridges: Japan Society of Cleveland Newsletter, March 1996. "The National Origins Act of 1924", book chapter in Asian Americans and Congress: A Documentary History, Hyung-chan Kim, editor (Greenwood, CO: 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). "Alien Land Law Of 1913", "Alien Land Law of 1920", "Reischauer, Edwin O.", "The San Francisco School Board Crisis" and "McClatchy, Valentine S.", entries for the Asian American Encyclopedia (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc.,1995). "Manga! The Japanese Comic Book Invasion," The Gamut, Summer 1990. "On The Cheap: Professor Enjoys Weekend in Tokyo for Less Than $100," The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), June 25, 1989. "Imaicho," Far East Traveler (Tokyo, Japan), June 1986. "Kakunodate," Far East Traveler (Tokyo, Japan), March 1985. "Mt. Koya: A Buddhist Mountain Retreat in Japan," Far East Traveler (Tokyo, Japan), January 1985. "Machiya: The Urban Shop Residence and Space in Traditional Japanese Architecture," Japan and America: A Journal of Cultural Affairs, Spring 1984 (inaugural issue). "Japan's Outdoor Museums V: Meiji Period Architecture," Orientations, July 1982. "Japan's Outdoor Museums IV: Urban Homes, Shops and Workshops," Orientations, March 1982. "Japan's Outdoor Museums III: Imperial Palaces, Aristocratic Villas and Samurai Mansions," Orientations, January 1982. "Japan's Outdoor Museums II: Rural Architecture," Orientations, September 1981. "Japan's Outdoor Museums I: Prehistoric Homes and Village Sites" Orientations, June 1981.
VITAE: LEE A. MAKELA / 3 "The Japanese Castle: Symbol of an Age," Orientations, February 1981. "Simulating a Senatorial Investigation into the `Fall' of China," The History Teacher, August 1978. "Edward Sylvester Morse: A Biographical Essay," The East, May 1976. "Pruning the Flowers of Edo: A Look at Traditional Japanese Firefighting Techniques," Orientations, February 1976. "Designing Slide/Tape Self-Instruction," ERIC (Stanford University, Stanford, California), September 1975. "A Place for the Novel in the East Asian Survey," The Social Studies, July/August 1975. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Osaka 2001 at the Dawn of a New Millennium : web address - http://academic.csuohio.edu/makelaa/lectures/osaka/index.html, Cleveland State University, 2002 An Introduction to Traditional Japanese Architecture : web address - http://academic.csuohio.edu/history/lectures/intro01.html, Cleveland State University, 2001. Beyond Moss and Stone: The Japanese Garden in Its Cultural Context : web address - http://academic.csuohio.edu/history/lectures/intro01.html, Cleveland State University, 2001. Five part Internet-based illustrated lecture series: "The Cultural History of Japan": web address - http://academic.csuohio.edu/makelaa/lectures/lectures.html, Cleveland State University, 1998. Visual Literacy Exercise: web address http://www.csuohio.edu/history/lectures/intro01.html, Cleveland State University, 1998. Tape/slide lecture: "Japan on the Eve of Westernization," accepted for distribution by the Center for Asian Studies of the Great Lakes College Association, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1975. INTERNET WEB SITES: TEACHING RESOURCES EVALUATION WEB SITE: Resource Evaluation Site: "Teaching (and Learning) About Japan", Internet Web Site address: <http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan/index.html>, established February 1995 and regularly updated. In August 1999 this site was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as one of the year's twenty-four best educational web sites in cyberspace and placed on the NEH EdSITEment listing of the best humanities web sites in history (see listing at the following web address: http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites-hist.html); also recommended by Argus Clearinghouse at the University of Michigan (1996) and EdHelper.com (2000).
VITAE: LEE A. MAKELA / 4 FUNDED GRANTS and AWARDS (1990 PRESENT) : Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, Cleveland State University, October 2001. Instructional Materials Development Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, "Digitizing Slide Lectures on Japanese Architecture and Garden Design for Internet Use", January 2000. Teaching Fellow Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, Winter and Spring Quarters 1998. College of Arts and Sciences and Center for Teaching Excellence grants, "Digitizing Slide Lectures on Japanese Cultural History for a CD-ROM Master Disk", March 1996. Instructional Materials Development Grants, Cleveland State University, Summer 1996 and Summer 1997. Visiting Scholar Grant Program, Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Japan, From Metropolis to Metropolis: Images of the Robot in Japanese and Western Film, Fall Semester 2003; "The Emergence of Fashion Consciousness in Early Modern Japan", Fall Semester 1996. REPRESENTATIVE ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Coordinator, Asian Studies Program, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1986 - present. Visiting Scholar, Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Shiga, Japan, September December 2003; Visiting Scholar and Interim Resident Director, September December 1996. Evaluator, InSites, Dillon, Colorado (team member examining the integration of Asian materials into the K 12 curriculum in Northeast Ohio), March December 2003. Guest Lecturer, "The Samurai Tradition", Japanese Studies course, Shaker Heights High School, January 10, 2001. Guest Lecturer, Confucius And The Web, public lecture given as part of CSU s Chinese Arts and Culture Celebration (February 13 18, 2000), February 15, 2000. Seminar Leader, "Teaching About East Asia" (thirty classroom hour Freeman Foundation Seminar sponsored by Indiana University encouraging the integration of materials about China, Japan and Korea into the Middle School and High School curriculum), Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, January - March 2000, January April, 2002. Chairman, Board of Directors (1996 1999); Member, Board of Directors (1995-1999) (Program Committee and Executive Committee); Delegation leader, Second International Symposium of Japan America Societies (Fukuoka, Japan, May 1998), Japan Society of Cleveland / Japan America Society of Northeast Ohio. Editor (with Linda B. Johnson, Robin A. Skitberg and Marilyn R. Sommer), A Walking Tour of the Japanese Garden Gan Ryuu Tei (Rock Stream Garden), Cleveland: The Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, 1993. Instructor, "Schooling in Japan: A Travel Seminar" (on-campus study coupled with a ten day visit to Japan for elementary and secondary teachers), Teachers' Academy, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, July 5-19, 1988 and June 24 - July 8, 1991.
VITAE: LEE A. MAKELA / 5 Organizer and Co-Leader, "Passages to Tibet" (a three week study tour of China and Tibet), August 30, 1988 - September 19, 1988. Study Leader, Smithsonian Associates Study Tours: The Island World of Japan (2001, 2003), Kyoto City Interlude Program (1992, 1994), Smithsonian Associates Japan Journey Travel Seminar (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003), Smithsonian Associates Kyoto Seminar, Kyoto, Japan (1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987) and Smithsonian Associates Japan Travel Seminar (1983).