About Me
Professor Lee received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago, 1997. His field of interest is the Politics of Race and Ethnicity. His current research interests are racial politics, public opinion, political behavior, social movements, Asian American politics, survey research methods, and health care and social welfare politics. His recently published book, Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), examines the activation of racial attitudes and takes critical aim at elite-driven and survey-based opinion research. Lee has also written on the role of identity, language, information, trust, stereotypes, and discrimination in shaping policy preferences, racial attitudes, and interracial interactions. He is currently synthesizing these works into a book-length manuscript on Asian Americans, Latinos, and the future of race relations and racial politics in the U.S.
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Personal Information
EDUCATION
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B.A. in Japanese (Hon.) |
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Thailand | 1990 |
| Non-degree | Dept. of Japanese Language, Tohoku University, Japan | 1988-89 |
| M.A. in Japanese Linquistics | Keio University, Japan | 1994 |
| M.A. in Asian Studies | University of California, Berkeley | 1998 |
| Visiting Research Fellow | Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University, Japan | 2000-01 |
| Ph.D. in Asian Studies | University of California, Berkeley | 2001 |
AWARDS
| Japanese Government Scholarship | Non-degree at Tohoku University | 1988-89 |
| Japanese Government Scholarship | M.A. at Keio University | 1991-94 |
| Harvard-Yenching Scholarship | Ph.D. course work | 1996-00 |
| Japan Foundation Fellowship | Doctoral Fellow (for Ph.D. field research) | 2000-01 |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan | Global Youth Leadership 2003 | Jan. 2003 |
| Salzburg Seminar | Session Fellowship: Changing Concepts of Security in Asia |
Dec. 2003 |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Internship | CP Group | Summer 1988 |
| Assistant to the Service Advisor | Service Center Kang Yong Wattana, Co. Ltd. |
1990-91 |
| Staff | Marketing & Coordination Dept., Mitsubishi (Thailand), Co. Ltd. |
1994-95 |
| Lecturer Chair, M.A. Program in Japanese Studies (Since 2001) |
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Thailand | 1995 - present |