Laura McTaggart was commissioned into the U.S. Navy after finishing her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan with a Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship, and served on active duty from 1992 to 1996. She completed Surface Warfare Officers School at Newport, Rhode Island, and received further training in anti-submarine warfare. She served on a frigate, then on an aircraft carrier where she became part of the first combatant U.S....

"Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the United States, and in China. Huie, the youngest of six children and the only one born in the United States, grew up in Duluth,...