Authors

Ashok Khosla

Ashok Khosla is the creator and editor of the KhipuFieldGuide. His background is in computational linguistics and computer graphics. He has been an engineer, entrepreneur and leader at numerous companies including as a GM of Apple India and China.

3 posts • Mendocino, California, USA

Mackinley FitzPatrick

Mackinley FitzPatrick is an Archaeology PhD candidate at Harvard University whose current research examines khipus recovered from the site of Laguna de los Cóndores, Peru, as a way to better understand Inka khipu structure, production, and use.

3 posts • Harvard University

Karen Thompson

Karen is a Senior Research Data Specialist (University of Melbourne). Formally an actuary, she holds degrees in Mathematics, Fine Arts, and Cultural Materials Conservation. She focuses on data organisation, communication, and cultural collections.

3 posts • Melbourne, Australia

Manuel Medrano

Manny Medrano is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Harvard University, where he examines pre-Columbian texts, artifacts, and scientific practices, and the history of their transmission, reception, and study in the Americas and worldwide.

1 post • Harvard University

Rafael Dumett

Rafael Dumett, born in Lima, studied Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and theater at the Teatro de la Universidad Católica and at Sorbonne, Paris. He has written many plays, and El espía del Inca was his debut as a novelist.

1 post

Sabine Hyland

Sabine Hyland is a professor of World Religions at St. Andrews. Her work focuses on khipus in colonial and modern Peru. She holds degrees from Cornell and Yale and has conducted research in Peru, Spain, Bolivia, Ecuador, and the US.

1 post • University of St Andrews

Fabricio Cavero Farfan

Fabricio is a Peruvian composer, performer and academic bridging popular and Andean folk music. He combines diverse vocal techniques, new technologies, and Western and Indigenous American instruments to shape an ethno-archaeo-musicological aesthetic.

1 post • University of California, Irvine

Andrés Chirinos

Andrés is a historian with PhD from UNED, Spain, who specializes in early colonial Peru (1532–1570), caciques, and quipus. His work also spans indigenous languages, mythology, and Andean ethnography. Author of Quipus del Tahuantinsuyo, among others.

1 post