She has a BA from Randolph-Macon College and a PhD from Cornell. While a graduate student, she was a Meritt Fellow and then a Vanderpool Fellow at the American School, and is now a member of the Managing Committee. Laura’s research interests include Greek religion and epigraphy, and she has published a fragment of the sacrificial calendar of the 5th century BC from the Athenian Agora. She is now preparing a guide to the Agora museum and revising her dissertation on the sacred law of Andania for publication. Laura has dug at the Agora since 1995 and this summer will be exploring an area east of the Middle Stoa which was originally excavated by Eugene Vanderpool in 1932.