Allison Davis is the Executive Director of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee and Lead Foreign Affairs Analyst in the Cultural Heritage Center at the U.S. Department of State. She leads a team of experts working to reduce looting and trafficking of cultural property from around the world, while developing U.S. programs and policies to preserve cultural heritage in collaboration with Latin America countries and communities. Before joining the Department in 2014, Allison carried out archaeological research in Peru for 15 years. She also has excavated in Italy and the United States. Allison taught archaeology and anthropology at Oberlin College and Brown University. She is an alum of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Peru. She holds an A.B. cum laude in anthropology from Dartmouth College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Allison grew up in Sullivan, Missouri, and is currently a
resident of Kirkwood, Missouri.
