Mark RiceMark Rice is the author of two books about photography and American history. The first, Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), examined an important but nearly-forgotten grant categry administered by the National Endowment for the Arts from 1976 to 1981. The photography surveys sought to reveal essential facts about American life in the Bicentennial era by bridging the gap between documentary and art photography. Rice's second book, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines (University of Michigan Press, 2014, and Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015) discussed one man's efforts to use photography in order to promote an American imperial agenda in the Philippines in the early years of the twentieth century. His latter book won the Gintong Aklat (Golden Book Award) for the social sciences, one of the most prestigious publishing prizes in the Philippines. It was also a finalist for the Philippine National Book Award in History. Rice holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Hawaii. He is the founding chair of the American Studies Department at St. John Fisher College, in Rochester, New York, where he holds the rank of Professor. In 2007 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Can Tho University (Vietnam), where he helped develop a curriculum in American Studies. Read More Read Less