Laurie has lived and worked in Rome since 2006, when she moved here with her family from Cambridge, Massachusetts. An art historian with a BA from Vassar College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, Laurie worked at museums in Washington, DC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Los Angeles and Boston and served as a Fulbright consultant to museums in Southeast Asia before moving to Italy. She has taught art history and museum studies at Temple University Rome and other study abroad programs in Rome, and in Florence, and been a University Lecturer at Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she directed the Museum Lab. Laurie has collaborated with the Special Superintendence for Archaeology of the Ministry of Fine Arts in Italy, and been a Museum Fellow at the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, where she organized a lecture series with Roman museum directors on Legacies of Roman Museums. As she takes students and travelers to museums, archaeological sites, villas, palaces and churches throughout Italy, Laurie consistently experiences the joy of discovering something new at every place she visits.