Laura Schiavo

Laura Schiavo's scholarship explores museum history (including the recent edited collection U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation: Never Neutral (2024)), contemporary museum practices, and pedagogical approaches to curatorial practice. She is interested in the relationship between identity and cultural production. Recent activities include travel to Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of the Divided Communities collaboration between GW and Queen University to co-teach a class and give a public talk, Public Historians‚ Obligations in a Divided Nation: The Promise and Pitfalls of Interpretation.‚ Last May, she co-organized a mini-conference for the National Council on Public History, Realizing the Power of History: Past, Present, and Future Strategies. Schiavo teaches curatorial practice and exhibition development in the Museum Studies program, where she has taught since 2009, and currently serves as Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. She holds a PhD in American Studies from GW.