Laura Conte

BIO

Prior to joining the Museum in 2024, she earned her M.A. in Southern Studies (2024) from the University of Mississippi and her B.A. in Art History (2012) from the College of William and Mary. Before going to graduate school in 2022, Laura worked at the Taubman Museum of Art in her hometown of Roanoke, VA as a Membership Coordinator before accepting a position as Curatorial Assistant Manager. She has also participated in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) Summer Institute research program. Laura has loved history for as long as she can remember, having spent childhood summers doing genealogical research with her grandfather and visiting Colonial Williamsburg and the Historic Triangle of Virginia with her family. In 2022, Laura was nominated as one of SEMC’s “Ones to Watch”. Her research interests include eighteenth and nineteenth century southern material culture and the history of women.