Khadene Harris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology also appointed to the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University. A historical archaeologist, her research explores the intersection of race, slavery, and capitalism in the Caribbean. Her current project focuses on the transition from slavery to freedom on the island of Dominica, with special emphasis on the social and economic networks of the laboring class. Her research uses imported and locally made ceramics, the house and yard complex, and oral accounts to narrate community histories under colonial rule.

Khadene has been a longtime collaborator with the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (daacs.org). She has held fellowships with the International Center for Jefferson Studies and the Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts.

Her work has been published in Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces In Between and Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Economies and Ecologies at Morne Patate.