Konrad A. Antczak is a Venezuelan historical archaeologist (PhD College of William and Mary, 2017). His research focuses on sixteenth- through nineteenth-century commodities, seafaring mobilities, and everyday life in the Southern Caribbean and through these topics he explores the itineraries of things, human-thing entanglements, and assemblages of practice in the past. He undertook the ArCarib project as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Pompeu Fabra University where he is currently an Assistant Professor. Konrad is also Historical Archaeologist at the Unidad de Estudios Arqueológicos, Universidad Simón Bolívar, in Caracas, Venezuela.  

He is author of Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880 (Sidestone Press 2019) and editor of the Spanish- and English-language volume entitled Venezuelan Historical Archaeology: Current Perspectives on Contact, Colonialism, and Independence (Sidestone Press 2024). He has also 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), “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),, the review “Historical Archaeology in Venezuela” (Post-Medieval Archaeology, 2019), as well as the commentary "The Asymmetries of Disentanglement" (Archaeological Dialogues, 2017).