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 Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Researcher at the Departament d’Humanitats of Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Since 2011 he is also part of the team of the Archaeology Research Unit, Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela, where he holds the position of Historical Archaeologist. He was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2019–2021) at UPF carrying out the ArCarib project: Archaeology of Informal Maritime Trade in the Caribbean and a visiting scholar (2018–2019) at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

He specializes in the historical archaeology of the Venezuelan Caribbean and the Leeward Antilles with a focus on commodities and everyday seafaring lives and mobilities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, including the cultivation and itineraries of sea salt and contraband or informal trade. He explores these topics through his conceptual framework of assemblages of practice that uniquely reveals continuities and changes in human-thing entanglements through time. Currently, Konrad is continuing and broadening the research begun during the ArCarib project by expanding the archaeometric study of Antillean and Venezuelan coarse earthenware and continuing archaeological research on everyday life in 18th–19th-century Curaçao and Bonaire.

He is the author of Islands of Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880, which received the 2022 Fernando Coronil Prize, awarded by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association for the best book on Venezuela. Konrad has published various articles in peer-reviewed journals on Venezuelan historical archaeology and history and archaeological theory and method among others “Life at the Salty Edge of Empire: The Maritime Cultural Landscape at the Orange Saltpan on Bonaire, 1821–1960” (International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2023) and “Assemblages of practice. A conceptual framework for exploring human–thing relations in archaeology” (Archaeological Dialogues, 2019).