Laura Keim serves as curator for Stenton and Historic Germantown and its collections. She is a lecturer of historic interiors at Philadelphia University and in the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Keim participated in Shelf Life, a multi-author project that took place on a large bookshelf in The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage lobby from October 2011 to August 2012. From 2011 to 2013, she contributed to the Center's Dance and History Research Project, an interdisciplinary research project between dancers and historians that explored alternative ways of interpreting historic sites.