Edward J. Gray

Edward J. Gray is the Officer for National Coordination at DARIAH ERIC, the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, and Research Infrastructure Coordinator at the IR* Huma-Num (CNRS). With a proven track record of strategic policymaking at DARIAH, he is currently part of the ECHOES project’s efforts to conceptualize the future European Cloud for Cultural Heritage, as well as co-leading a DARIAH task force on AI Governance and Ethics. He is currently on the Editorial Board for the SSH Open Marketplace, a discovery platform for digital humanities tools and services that was born from the SSHOC Project. While a doctorant invité at the École nationale des chartes in Paris, he earned a Master’s degree in Technologies numériques appliquées à l’histoire (TNAH), where he is also chargé de cours. Before working at Huma-Num, Edward was the Digital Humanities Coordinator at the Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société in Lille. He earned his doctorate in history from Purdue University, where his dissertation, The Marillac: Family Strategy, Religion, and Diplomacy in the Making of the French State during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, examined the ways in which familial politics impacted the formation of the early modern French state.

CV updated on 2025-09-15.