Mia Ching Lee

Dr Lee Mia Ching

Senior Lecturer

Core Learning

Tel: +65 6240 8935

Educational Qualifications

2007
PhD (History), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2000
MA (History), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1996
BA (History), University of California, Irvine

Academic and Professional Experience

2020 - Present
Senior Lecturer, College of Interdisciplinary & Experiential Learning, SUSS

2012 - 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore

2009 - 2012
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick

2007 - 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor & Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History & Core Curriculum Program American University of Cairo

Single-Author Research Monograph:

Utopia and Dissent in West Germany: The Resurgence of the Politics of Everyday Life in the Long 1960s, Routledge Studies in Modern European History (London and New York: Routledge, 2019).

International Refereed Journal Papers:

“Student-Led Research and Outreach in the Humanities: A Case of Experiential Learning”, IJSES vol. 3 no. 1 (2022): 75-84.

“History from Below in Singapore’s Secondary Schools”, blog.nus.edu.sg (2021 March 17).

"Nazis in the Middle East: Assessing Links between Nazism and Islam," Contemporary European History 27(February 2018): 125-135.

"Political Pornography in the West German Underground Press," History Workshop Journal 78, no. 1 (2014): 186-203.

"The Return of the Avant-Garde in Post-war West Germany," Australian Journal of Politics and History 60, no. 3 (Faultlines: Cohesion and Division in Modern Europe) (2014): 405-415.

Book Chapters:

"Gruppe Spur: Art as a Revolutionary Medium during the Cold War," in Between the Avant Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 1958-2008, edited by Tim S. Brown and Lorena Anton (Berghahn Books: New York/Oxford, 2011): 11-30.

"GDR Monuments in Reunified Germany", in Memorialisation in Germany Since 1945, edited by Bill Niven and Chloe Paver (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010): 308-317.

"Umherschweifen und Spektakel: Die situationistische Tradition," in 1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung, edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth (Stuttgart: Metzler-Verlag, 2007): 101-106.

  • American Historical Association
  • Experiential Learning Certificate (Level I and II)
  • German Studies Association
  • Historylabsg.com

2017 - Ongoing
Research Mentorship Programme Coordinator in collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Education History Curriculum Division

  • Modern European History
  • Modern Art & Architecture
  • History & Memory
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