The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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John Kuo Wei Tchen

Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis
Associate Professor, Gallatin School;
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., 1992
New York University; M.A. 1987
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973

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Areas of Research/Interest: Cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory; and radical pedagogy .

Fellowships/Honors: Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities; City of New York Mayors Award of Honor for Arts and Culture.

Select Publications:

New York before Chinatown : Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1999)

Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's old ChinatownK, ed. (New York: Dover, 1984)

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