Joey Orr (14G), is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research at the University of Kansas where he directs the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art and serves as affiliate faculty in the Institute for Policy and Social Research, Museum Studies, and Visual Art. His previous post was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where his major project aligned three exhibitions around artistic inquiry. Specifically trained in hybrid, artistic research methods, he received his MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed a practice-based, interdisciplinary PhD as an Arts and Sciences Fellow at Emory University. He co-edited special issues of the Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press) and Visual Methodologies (Research Methods Lab, Switzerland) and was an associate editor in the inaugural years of the Journal for Artistic Research (Bern, Switzerland). He published the chapter “Collecting Social Things” in the volume Rhetoric, Social Value, and the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan) and recent interviews with social practice pioneer Suzanne Lacy (Art & the Public Sphere) and artist Dread Scott about his recent Slave Rebellion Reenactment in New Orleans (Journal of American Studies). He is a founding member of the idea collective, John Q.