Anthony Lee is Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. The recipient of the National Museum of American Art’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship, he is author of Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (University of California Press, 2001); A Shoemaker’s Story (Princeton University Press, 2008); and co-author of On Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (University of California Press, 2008).