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AB, Brown University
MA, Arizona State University
PhD, Northwestern University

Research and Teaching Interests:
Aztecs, Mesoamerica, household archaeology, political economy, complex societies, gender and identity, ceramics, food production, microanalysis, soil chemistry, childhood, ethnicity, social inequality, historical archaeology, colonialism, bioarchaeology

Current Research:
Dr. De Lucia is an anthropological archaeologist whose field research is based in Xaltocan, Mexico, where she studies households and how the daily practices of commoners influence the development of broader political economies and social systems. Her research interests include households, complex societies, the Aztecs, the development of inequality, colonialism, and the archaeology of identity (including gender, childhood, and ethnicity). She integrates various analytical methods into her research including micro-archaeology, soil chemistry, bioarchaeology, and pottery analyses. Dr. De Lucia is currently co-directing the Xaltocan Archaeological Project in the Xaltocan Church and her recent research has focused on ritual and religion in colonial and pre-colonial Mexico. This research was recently featured in  and the Mexican newspaper, . . 

Books:

2015 Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life. Morehart, Christopher T. and K. De Lucia, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Peer Review Articles and Book Chapters:

2024 Considering Reciprocity and Gratitude in Postclassic Basin of Mexico Economies. In Realizing Value in Mesoamerica: The Dynamics of Desire and Demand in Ancient Economies, Scott R. Hutson and Charles Golden, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, Pp. 51-78. 

2021 De Lucia, K., & Scott Cummings, L. Residue Analysis of Cooking Vessels from Early Postclassic Xaltocan, Central Mexico. Latin American Antiquity, 32(4), 800-818. doi:10.1017/laq.2021.32

2021 Household Lake Exploitation and Aquatic Lifeways in Early Postclassic Central Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 62:101273. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101273.

2020 (with M. Boulanger and M. Glascock) Small-Scale Household Ceramic Production: Neutron Activation Analysis of Plain and Decorated Ceramics from Early Postclassic Xaltocan. Ancient Mesoamerica, 32(2), 316-334. 

2018 Style, Memory, and the Production of History: Aztec Pottery and the Materialization of a Toltec Legacy. Current Anthropology, Vol 59 (6). 

2017 Households in the Aztec Empire. In Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs. D.L. Nichols and E. Rodríguez-Alegría, eds. Oxford University Press. Pp. 247- 260.

2017 The Living House: Vernacular Architecture of Early Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico. In Vernacular Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas. C. Halperin and L. Schwartz, eds. Routledge. 

2016 (with L. Overholtzer) A Multiscalar approach to Migration and Social Change at Middle Postclassic Xaltocan. D.L. Nichols and E. Rodríguez-Alegría, eds. Ancient Mesoamerica, Vol 27, Issue 1, pp.163-182. 

2015 (with C.T. Morehart) Surplus and Social Change: The Production of Household and Field in Pre-Aztec Central Mexico. In Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life. C.T. Morehart and K. De Lucia, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

2015 (with C.T. Morehart) Introduction: The Politics of Production and Strategies of Everyday Life. In Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life. C.T. Morehart and K. De Lucia, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 

2014 Everyday Practice and Ritual Space: The Organization of Central Mexican Domestic Ritual before the Aztecs. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 1-25.

2014 (with L. Overholtzer) Everyday Action and the Rise and Decline of Ancient Polities: Household Strategy and Political Change in Postclassic Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp