Kylie Quave is an anthropological archaeologist and writing faculty at the George Washington University. She studies the contributions of marginalized peoples to the development of states and empires. She specifically conducts research in the heartland of the former Inka empire in the South American Andes (11th to 18th centuries in Cusco, Perú), comparing the daily lives of forcibly resettled ethnic groups and the rural communities that were excluded from imperial society. She has recently authored articles in Journal of Field Archaeology; American Anthropologist; Food, Society, & Culture; Journal of Archaeology & Education; and Antiquity.