PUBLICATIONS
(A select list. Click on a hyperlinked paper title to go directly to the source.)
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
In press Kucur, Ezra, K. Quave, & Sarah Kennedy. "Constructing an Ethical Discipline: A Survey of Anthropology Program Requirements and Rhetorics.” Journal of Archaeology and Education.
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2025 Chiou, Katherine, Di Hu, K. Quave, Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Andrew Warnes, Psyche Williams-Forson, Peggy Brunache, Dana N. Bardolph, & Michael P. Federoff. “Multiple inequalities in every meal: Theorizing the intersectional erasure of food producers both past and present.” Food, Culture & Society Online First.
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2025 Rivera Prince, Jordi A., Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Elizabeth L. Leclerc, Emily B. P. Milton, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, K. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, & Daniel H. Sandweiss. “Writing in Community: Relationship Building and Accountability in Knowledge Production”. American Anthropologist 127(2): 319-38.
- Published in Spanish as: 2025. Rivera Prince, Jordi A., Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Elizabeth L. Leclerc, Emily B. P. Milton, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, K. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, & Daniel H. Sandweiss. “Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento”. American Anthropologist Early View: 1-19.
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2025 Covey, R. Alan, K. Quave, Hubert Quispe-Bustamante, Camille Weinberg, Nicole Payntar, & Véronique Bélisle. “Settlement Discontinuity at Ak’awillay and the Development of the Inca Imperial Capital Region (Cuzco, Peru).” Antiquity 99(404): 481-99.
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2025 Hu, Di, Víctor Felix Vásquez Sánchez, Teresa Esperanza Rosales Tham, Katherine L. Chiou, Rob Cuthrell, & K. Quave. "Food and labour under imperial rule: Unraveling the food landscape of transplanted workers (mitmaqkuna) in the Inka Empire.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 35(2): 207-26.
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2024 Quave, K. & Savannah Hagen Ohbi. "Teaching and Learning a Joyful Citation Praxis: Affective relations for fostering community through our compositions.” Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching 128: 37-48.
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2023 Kosiba, Steve, K. Quave, Nicola Sharratt, Mark Golitko, Laure Dussubieux, & Patrick Ryan Williams. “Local Knowledge and Imperial Art: A Preliminary LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Clay Preference and Ceramic Production Practices in Ancient Cuzco (ca. 1100–1550 CE).” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48 (April): 103870.
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2023 Abbas, Nasreen, Jameta Nicole Barlow, Wade Fletcher, Sandie Friedman, Cayo Gamber, Nabila Hijazi, Randi Gray Kristensen, Robin Marcus, Jessica McCaughey, Carol Mitchell, Danika Myers, Pamela Presser, K. Quave, & Caroline Smith. “Dialogue and Coalition Building in a Multidisciplinary Writing Program.” Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 25 (4).
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2021 Quave, K., Shannon Fie, AmySue Qing Qing Greiff, & Drew Agnew. “Centering the Margins: Knowledge Production in the Introductory Archaeology Course”. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(2):87-100. (Postprint on SocArXiv)
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2021 Quave, K. & Charles Lewis. “Multilingual Immersion and Multimodal Composition as Contact Zones in Study Abroad.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies 7(1): 1293-1306. Special Issue: “Multimodal Composition in Multilingual Contexts.”
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2020 Hu, Di & K. Quave. “Prosperity and prestige: Archaeological realities of unfree laborers under Inka imperialism.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 59: 101201. (Postprint on SocArXiv)
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2019 Quave, K., Sarah Kennedy, & R. Alan Covey. “Rural Cuzco before and after Inka imperial conquest: Foodways, status, and identity (Maras, Peru).” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23(4): 868-892.
2019 Kennedy, Sarah & K. Quave. “Identificando contextos domésticos Inka por medio de microartefactos: el sitio de Cheqoq (Maras, Cuzco).” Qillqana: Revista arqueológica del Cusco 1: 42-63.
2018 Quave, K., R. Alan Covey, & Karen X. Durand Cáceres. “Archaeological Investigations at Yunkaray (Cuzco, Peru): Reconstructing the Rise and Fall of an Early Inca Rival (A.D. 1050-1450).” Journal of Field Archaeology 43(4): 332-343.
2017 Quave, K. “Imperial-style Ceramic Production on a Royal Estate in the Inka Heartland (Cuzco, Peru).” Latin American Antiquity 28(4): 599-608.
2017 Covey, R. Alan & K. Quave. “The Economic Transformation of the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru) in the Late Sixteenth Century.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 59(2): 277-309.
2017 Quave, K. & Nicolette Meister. “Assessing the Impact of Curricular Collections Use at a Liberal Arts College.” Museum Management and Curatorship 32(1): 2-19.
Editor-Reviewed Articles
In press Quave, K., Diane Newbury, Beth Taylor, & Greta Taylor. "Computed Tomography of a Possible Avian Effigy Bundle.” Andean Past 15.
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2022 Quave, K. & Christopher Heaney. “A Central Coast Mortuary Assemblage from the Logan Museum of Anthropology.” Andean Past 13: 463-477.
2022 Hoffman, Alicia & K. Quave. “Identification of Pigments from a Late Central Coast Textile Assemblage.” Andean Past 13: 478-481.
2022 Hoffman, Alicia, Reed Peck-Kriss, & K. Quave. “Technological and Chemical Analysis of a Late Central Coast Metalwork Assemblage.” Andean Past 13: 482-487.
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Book
2019 Williams, Leslie Lea & K. Quave. Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook. Academic Press.
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Chapters and Essays (**peer-reviewed, *editor-reviewed)
**2024 Barlow, Jameta Nicole & K. Quave. “STEM Writing as Disruption: Views from First-Year Writing”. In Inclusive STEM: Transforming Disciplinary Writing Instruction for a Socially Just Future, 23-40. Edited by Heather M. Falconer and LaKeisha McClary. WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado - Across the Disciplines Books series.
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**2023 Norman, Scotti & K. Quave. "Bureaucrats and Binaries: Household Archaeologies of Indigenous Andean Leadership." In Households to Empires. Papers in Memory of Bradley J. Parker, 99-120. Edited by J. R. Kennedy and P. Mullins. Sidestone Press, Leiden.
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*2022 Quave, K. "The Inka khipu." In Smarthistory. https://smarthistory.org/inka-khipu/
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**2021 Hu, Di & K. Quave. "Indigenous Persistence in the Face of Imperialism: Andean Case Studies.” In Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas, 246-260. Edited by L. M. Panich and S. L. Gonzalez. Routledge, New York.
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**2020 Quave, K. & Chuck Lewis. “Picture This: Cross-Disciplinary Travel in Cuzco, Peru.” Faculty as Global Learners: Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges, 217-220, edited by J. Gillespie, L. Jasinski, and D. Gross. Lever Press.
*2019 Quave, K., Covey, Alan & Durand, Karen. “Excavaciones en Yunkaray-Maras: una reconstrucción de la relación entre los cusco-incas y un rival (1050 d. C.-1450 d. C.).” In Cusco prehispánico: resultados de nuevas investigaciones arqueológicas, 151-179. Edited by N. del Solar Velarde and M. D. Aráoz Silva. Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, Cusco, Perú.
*2018 Quave, K. “Royal Estates and Imperial Centers in the Cuzco Region.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Incas, 101-118. Edited by S. Alconini and R. A. Covey. Oxford University Press, New York.
*2016 Covey, R. Alan, K. Quave, & Catherine E. Covey. “Inka Storage Systems in the Imperial Heartland (Cuzco, Peru): Risk Management, Economic Growth, and Political Economy.” In Storage in Ancient Complex Societies: Administration, Organization, and Control, 167-188. Edited by L. R. Manzanilla and M. S. Rothman. Routledge, New York.
**2015 Bauer, Brian S., Miriam Aráoz Silva, & K. Quave. “The Yurak Rumi Shrine Complex.” In Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance, 42-75. Edited by B. S. Bauer, J. Fonseca Santa Cruz, and M. Aráoz Silva. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.
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- Published in Spanish as: 2016. Bauer, Brian S., Miriam Aráoz Silva, & K. Quave. “El Complejo Ceremonial de Yurak Rumi.” In Vilcabamba y la arqueología de la resistencia inca, 91-132. Edited by B. S. Bauer, J. Fonseca Santa Cruz, and M. Aráoz Silva. Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima, Perú.
*2015 Quave, K. & R. Alan Covey. “The Material Remains of Inca Power among Imperial Heartland Communities.” Tribus, Jahrbuch des Linden-Museums Stuttgart Special Edition: 110-127.
*2015 Quave, K. “Archaeology, Cuzco.” In Encyclopedia of the Incas, 32-37. Edited by G. Urton and A. von Hagen. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD.
*2014 Quave, K. “Reconstructing Colonial Migration and Resettlement in the Cuzco Region.” In Regional Archaeology in the Inca Heartland: The Hanan Cuzco Surveys, 193-212. Edited by R. A. Covey. Studies in Latin American Ethnohistory & Archaeology, edited by Joyce Marcus, Memoir 55, Volume X. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor.
**2013 Quave, K., René Pilco Vargas, & Stephanie Pierce Terry. “Las tierras reales del inca como economía noble: viviendas y obras de Cheqoq (Maras, Cuzco)”. In Investigaciones arqueológicas y antropológicas en los andes sud-centrales: Historia, cultura y sociedad, 110-145. Edited by D. Kurin and E. Gómez Choque. Fondo Editorial de la Dirección de Investigación, Creación Intelectual y Artística Universidad Nacional José María Arguedas, Andahuaylas, Apurímac, Perú.
*2013 Quave, K. & Brian S. Bauer. “Machu Picchu und die königlichen landsitze der region Cuzco”. In Inka: Könige der Anden, 96-113. Edited by D. Kurella and I. de Castro. Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt/Mainz, Germany. English preprint here
2009 Quave, K. “Confronting Anomaly in the Khipu Structure: Cultural and individual variations from two museum collections.” In Las IV Actas de las Jornadas Internacionales sobre Textiles Precolombinos, 241-51. Edited by V. Solanilla. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.