Carla Hernández Garavito is a Peruvian archaeologist and an assistant professor in the anthropology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research centers on the study of colonialism in the Peruvian Andes. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Latin American Antiquity, the Journal of Social Archaeology, and Ethnohistory. The National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, among others, have funded her research.