Elizabeth Laurent

Elizabeth Laurent is Consulting Project Manager for the Philadelphia Revealed exhibition of the Atwater Kent Collection at Drexel University, opening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the summer of 2024. She comes to this position with proven talent to lead, preserve, and interpret some of America’s greatest history collections and sites. Most recently, Elizabeth served as Director of Philanthropy for The Fund for the Water Works and President of the Chester County History Center. Previous positions include being Director of Historic Resources at Founder’s Hall, Girard College; Curator and Interim Executive Director at Cliveden of the National Trust; Curator at Stratford Hall Plantation; and a consultant to mid-Atlantic history organizations including Philadelphia’s Lemon Hill, Stenton, Historic Rittenhouse, Johnson House, Loudoun, the PA Society of Sons of the Revolution, and the Grundy Mansion in Bristol, PA.

Elizabeth holds a B.A. in History and Art History from Williams College and an M.A. from the University of Delaware / Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. She received a Girard College Alumni Award of Merit in 2016, is a National History Day Judge at the local, region, and national levels, and a Trustee of the Lower Merion Historical Society.