Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, is a writer, curator, art historian, and educator working as the Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries. Her scholarship and curating explores research-based sculpture, installation, new media, and social practice works activated by performance concerning formal liminalities, globalized migration, and ecological networks. She has shared her work in conferences ranging from Performance Studies International, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, the College Art Association, and the Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present. She has published writing in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, ASAP Journal, Women & Performance, among others, and recently co-edited the multidisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press, 2024). McLaughlin's curatorial work has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Dutch Consulate of New York, and the Teiger Foundation, and she is currently undertaking a 2022 Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship for an exhibition How do you throw a brick through a window….