Kelly Baum received a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2005. From 2002 to 2007, she was the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published a number of articles, brochures, and catalogues on contemporary art and has organized several exhibitions, including Carol Bove (2006); Jedediah Caesar (2007), The Sirens' Song (2007), Transactions (2007), and Body Memory (2008, with Joel Smith). Kelly's area of specialty extends to modern and postwar art as well. She recently published an article on a 1972 performance by Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta for PUAM's Record, and a chapter from her dissertation on the Situationist International (1957-1972) appeared in the fall 2008 issue of October. Kelly is currently at work on a 2010 exhibition titled Land, Space, Territory, an investigation into contemporary art, land rights, and geopolitical conflict.