Meghan Kirkwood is an assistant professor of visual arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she serves as area head of photography. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Photography before completing her MFA in Studio Art at Tulane University and her PhD at the University of Florida. Kirkwood’s photography has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Thailand, Mexico, and South Africa. Her photographic research looks at the ways in which landscape imagery can inform and advance public conversations around land use, infrastructure, and planning.