Lauren McKee

Associate Professor, Political Science and Asian Studies; Chair of Political Science | Asian StudiesAsian Studies

Lauren McKee portrait smiling with a dress shirt and vest and a background is a bookshelf.

Contact

Additional Department

  • Political Science

Office Location

  • Frost Building, 115

Biography

Dr. McKee first joined the faculty of Berea in 2014 as an ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow after receiving a Ph.D. in International Studies from Old Dominion University. She regularly works with the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, has published in the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)’ journal Education About Asia, and recently published a volume for the AAS series Key Issues in Asian Studies on Japanese politics and government. She enjoys teaching classes on comparative and East Asian politics and has taken students on study trips to Japan and China. Dr. McKee is also a member of the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future, sponsored by the Mansfield Foundation and the Japan Center for Global Partnerships,

Degrees

  • Ph.D. International Studies, Old Dominion University, 2014
  • M. A. English, University of Southern Mississippi, 2007
  • B.A. English, University of Southern Mississippi, 2004

Publications & Works

  • Japanese Government and Politics (2023). Columbia University Press for the Association for Asian Studies.
    (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/japanese-government-and-politics/9781952636356)