Lenore Metrick-Chen

Lenore Metrick-Chen is an art and cultural historian and curator at Drake University. She explores visual art’s agency in social change, in issues of race, feminism, and contested public space. Her book 'Collecting Objects and Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and 19th C American Visual Culture' (SUNY Press, 2012) speaks of the effect of the United States Exclusion laws on perceptions of Chinese people and Chinese objects in 19th-century US. Her edited volume 'Creating Cultural Memory: Architecture, Monuments and Other Ephemera' is upcoming from SUNY Press.