Laura Wexler is Charles H. Farnam Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. She researches, writes, curates and teaches about gender, race, class, sexuality and nationalism in photographic cultures, and she directs the Photographic Memory Workshop at Yale. She has published extensively, from Pregnant Pictures (2000) and Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (2000), winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, to “Highway Histories: Photographing Migrant Labor Camps along US Route 101.” (2023).