Anthony W. Lee is an art historian, critic, curator, and photographer.  He earned his PhD in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently Professor and Chair of Art History at Mount Holyoke College.  As a critic and scholar, he writes about American photography and modernist painting.  As a photographer, he documents ethnic and immigrant communities.  He is the recipient of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, given by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, and the Cultural Studies Book Prize, given by the Association of Asian American Studies.  He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson foundation, the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.  He is founder and editor of the acclaimed series Defining Moments in American Photography, published by the University of California Press.  Contact him at awlee@mtholyoke.edu.