JOONG-JAE LEE
Associate Professor of History
Department of Social Sciences
University of Wisconsin
Platteville, WI 53818
608-342-1786
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EDUCATION
J. D. Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2012
Ph. D. History, New York University, New York, NY, 2000
B. A. History, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, 1994
B. S. History, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 1993
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006- Present Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI
2000 - 2006 Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI
2000 - 2000 Adjunct Instructor, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1998 - 2000 Teaching Assistant, New York University, NY, NY
PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
PUBLICATION:
“Defense Workers’ Struggles for Patriotic Control: the State-Labor-Management Contests over Defense Production at Brewster, 1940-44,” International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (Fall 2004), 136-54
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
“The Global Vision of US Working-Class Backlash: The Politics and Culture of Race and Fighting on Two Fronts, 1965-1994” (In progress)
“Indispensable Alien Labor: A Comparative Analysis of Immigration and Labor Laws Relating to Foreign Migrant Workers in the United States and South Korea” (In progress)
“Post-Expiration Duty to Arbitrate: Balancing Acts of Promoting the National Policy Favoring Arbitration and Upholding the Contractual Basis of Arbitration” (In progress)
CONFERENCES:
A plenary speaker at the following conferences:
“Engineers in the US History and Society” at the Wisconsin Section American Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 2001
Paper presentations at the following conferences:
“The Global Vision of Working-Class Backlash: The Politics and Language of Vilification, Victimization, and Protest in the United States, 1980-1994” at the Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 2005
“Global Workers’ Struggles against Corporate Restructuring: A Comparative Analysis of the State-Labor-Management Relationships at United and Daewoo” at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, 2004
“The Wartime Politics of Class, Ethnicity, and Subversion: Contests over Patriotic Productivity and Democratic Workplace at Brewster, 1940-1942,” at the North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, 2003
“Many Faces of the Patriotic and Productive Demands on Defense Workers: Class and Ethnic Politics at the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, New York, 1940-1944” at the Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2002
“Negotiating the National and the Local: Workers’ Search for Control and the Military, 1939-1945,” at the Researching New York Conference, Albany, NY, 1999
Session chair or commentator at the following conferences:
The Southwest Wisconsin Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Platteville, WI, 2001
The Wisconsin Political Science Association, Platteville, WI, 2000
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AWARDS AND GRANTS:
Sabbatical Leave, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 2006-2007
Curriculum Improvement Fund, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 2005
Faculty Professional Development Fund, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 2005
Scholarly Activity Improvement Fund, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 2002
Faculty Professional Development Fund, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 2002
Graduate Teaching Fellowship, History Department, New York University, 1998-2000
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Articles Editor, Wisconsin International Law Journal, 2010-2012
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