Professor Grace Chee: an Africanist/World Historian at the Los Angeles Community Colleges, and serves as the elected Treasurer, of the AFT1521, the 9-campus LA College Faculty Guild. She also serves on the executive board of the World History Association (WHA). Professor Chee embodies global citizenship and multi-culturalism in both teaching and service, because of her background as a child immigrant from South Korea, along with work and study abroad experience in Zimbabwe, South Africa, France, and Japan. As a world traveler and foodie, she weaves these multiple perspectives to teaching history. Professor Chee’s teaching method is that of coach: a collaborative combination of Socratic questioning and guided discussions among students. This method reflects her philosophy of achieving educational goals through intellectual training, perseverance, and the compassionate collaboration of wonderful faculty and peers.
When Professor Chee is not discussing history, she enjoys talking to fish and children underwater, as an aquarium scuba diver presenter.
Check out her West African travel video: “Tales of Timbuktu and the Glorious Mali Empire,” February 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpfNWbezUW4
The Cold War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPscJImZ-w
Talking to the text: How to read primary sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2p-70iV7-4&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share
and her teaching philosophy and welcome to students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxl9EOAi9ec&feature=youtu.be
Select Publications, Videos and Conference Papers
- Contributing author in Jonathan Reynold’s The 30-second Twentieth Century History. Ivy Press, May 2015 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1848318421/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1848318421&linkCode=as2&tag=professorch03-20&linkId=NJL52Q4O5UWGCLW4
- Instructor’s Manual: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, fourth edition. W.W. Norton, 2013, http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail-instructors.aspx?id=4294977952
- VIDEO! West Los Angeles College Black History Month Feature Lecture, “Tales of Timbuktu and the Glorious Mali Empire,” February 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpfNWbezUW4
- World History Association Panel Organizer and Chair: “The World through Comics: The Sacred and the Superhero,” Savannah, June 2015 conference presentation
- World History Association, ““Off the roads of Gheralta, Tigrai, Ethiopia, a Small Place in Christian World History,” Minneapolis, June 2013 conference presentation
Professor Grace Chee 