Laurel V. McLaughlin is a curator, art historian, writer, and educator whose research and writing explores research-based sculpture, installation, new media, and social practice works. McLaughlin holds a BA in English and Art History from Wake Forest University and MAs from The Courtauld Institute of Art and Bryn Mawr College. She is a Curator and the Director of Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries and completing her PhD at Bryn Mawr, writing a dissertation concerning performative migratory aesthetics.

The Lecture Series is presented by the Museum of Art and Archaeology and the School of Visual Studies with public support from the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.