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Elizabeth Lominska Johnson was born in Ossining, New York in 1941. In 1963, she received a B.A. in Psychology from Bucknell University. After receiving this degree she travelled in Europe for a year. In 1965 she married Graham Johnson. In 1967, she received a M.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University. Subsequently Johnson moved to Hong Kong where she lived from 1968 to 1971. Johnson continued to study at Cornell and in 1976 she received a Ph.D. in Anthropology. Her fieldwork was on the Hakka community in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. She was hired as a PT cataloguer at MOA in 1977; in 1979 she was hired as Curator of Collections. In 1986 her title became Curator of Ethnology. In 1988, the responsibility for the MOA Archives was transferred to Johnson from Audrey Shane (until 1999). Over the years, Johnson took on responsibility for the textile collection and the Asian collections, while contuining to oversee documentation. She retired from MOA in 2006.