Kirsten Pai Buick is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Her areas of research and teaching include the material and visual culture of the first British Empire; U.S. art; African American art and material culture; women as patrons and collectors of art; and landscape representation. She is the author of Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject (Duke University Press, 2010).