Laura A. Macaluso, Ph.D. is a researcher, writer, curator, and proposal writer and reviewer. Recent work includes Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World (2019), The Public Artscape of New Haven: Themes in the Creation of a City Image (2018) and “New Haven’s Second Centennial Medal and the Origins of City Identity,” Material Culture, Vol. 48, No. 2, Fall 2016: 1-15. She is a lead on the national project, “Revolutionary Houses, Revolutionary Narratives” for the 250th commemoration of the US in 2026, serves on the editorial board of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).