Irene Castle McLaughlin (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1993) is Curator of North American Ethnography at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. A social anthropologist, her research focuses on the historic and contemporary west. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on Native American ranching, agrarian economics, Native American arts and art markets, and the cultural history of wild horses. She is the Vice President of the North Dakota based Nokota Horse Conservancy. She also practices and teaches Visual anthropology and Museology, conducts museum-based research, and has collaborated with Native American artists on several major exhibitions.