Elizabeth La Duc is currently the Mellon Fellow in Objects Conservation at Historic New England, having graduated from Buffalo State in 2013. She previously interned at the Walters Art Museum, Gordion, Turkey, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Winterthur Museum. She graduated from Yale University, majoring in Archaeological Studies, and has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in the United States, Turkey, and Italy.