Laura Ansley joined the AHA as managing editor in September 2019, where she manages Perspectives on History, the AHA's booklets, annual meeting program, and sundry other publications. She is co-facilitator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals community of interest for the Society of Scholarly Publishing. In 2022, she received a Next Step Grant from the Association of University Presses.

Previously, Laura worked at the American Society of Civil Engineers as a journals production editor and was an editorial apprentice at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. From 2017 to 2022, she volunteered as managing editor of Nursing Clio, a website focusing on histories of gender and medicine. She holds an MA in history from William & Mary and a BA in history and American studies from Case Western Reserve University.

Laura's ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0160-0190.