KYLIE QUAVE

anthropological archaeologist and assistant professor of writing

Photo by Sarah Achten / Eden's Cove

ABOUT

Kylie Quave Herrera (she/her) is an anthropological archaeologist reconstructing the contributions of marginalized peoples to the development of states and empires. She specifically conducts her research in the heartland of the former Inka empire in the South American Andes (11th to 18th centuries), where she compares the everyday lives of forcibly resettled ethnic groups and the rural communities that were excluded from imperial society. She also conducts research on student learning outcomes in antiracist education, the political and social variables of knowledge production, and disciplinary ways of knowing.

Dr. Quave holds degrees in art history (Emory University) and anthropological archaeology (Southern Methodist University). She is currently Assistant Professor of Writing at the George Washington University, with an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology. She teaches courses focused on writing in the sciences and writing about quantification, including "Embodied Inequality: Rhetoric of Race and Racism" and "Writing Race, Measuring Marginalization".