Biography
Dr. Anne Duray
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
Division of Computing and Communications Foundations
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Class of 2024-2026
Dr. Anne Duray is an archaeologist and intellectual historian whose academic work focuses on the intersections of ideologies and practice in archaeological knowledge production in the Mediterranean during the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, she has explored the influence of race science on archaeological understandings of "culture" and the implications for how we conceive of ancient populations in the present. This work has led to broader interests in how scientists produce knowledge, ethics, and representation in scientific practice and how narratives about science and technology are crafted and communicated to the broader public.
Duray received her doctorate in classical archaeology from Stanford University in 2020 and has previously taught topics related to archaeology, race, and the ancient world at both Stanford and the University of Colorado Boulder. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and has conducted archaeological fieldwork for over a decade in both Italy and Greece at a range of sites with materials deriving from deep prehistory to the Medieval period.