Dr. Konrad A. Antczak

Konrad A. Antczak is a Venezuelan and Polish historical archaeologist who received his PhD from The College of William and Mary in 2017. He is currently a Juan de La Cierva-Incorporación Researcher at the Departament d’Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and Historical Archaeologist at the Unidad de Estudios Arqueológicos, Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela.

He was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at UPF and a visiting scholar at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture of the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the historical archaeology of sixteenth- through nineteenth-century commodities, seafaring mobilities, and identities in the Southeastern Caribbean. Throught these topics he explores the theoretical contours of human-thing entanglements, the itineraries of things, and assemblages of practice.

He is author of Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880 (Sidestone Press, 2019) and has published a number of peer-reviewed articles including: “Assemblages of Practice: A Conceptual Framework for Exploring Human-Thing Relations in Archaeology” (co-authored with Mary C. Beaudry in Archaeological Dialogues, 2019) and “Life at the Salty Edge of Empire: The Maritime Cultural Landscape at the Orange Saltpan on Bonaire, 1821–1960” (coauthored with Ruud Stelten in International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2022).