Sandra Montón Subías is an archaeologist with broad interests in social and theoretical archaeology. She is committed to a feminist archaeology, and to the understanding of Gender and Maintenance Activities both in the past and the present. Since October 2011, she has added the Archaeology of Modern Spanish Colonialism and the First Globalization to her research interests (traditionally focused on the archaeology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean). Sandra is currently PI in the project Cultura Material, Colonialismo y Género en el Pacífico. Una aproximación desde la Arqueología Histórica (Material Culture, Colonialism and Gender in the Pacific. An approach from Historical Archaeology) and co-director of the project Aberigua. Arqueología del Contacto Cultural y Colonialismo Ibérico en Guam y las Islas Marianas (Aberigua. Archaeology of Iberian Cultural Contact and Colonialism in Guam and the Mariana Islands) (https://www.facebook.com/AberiguaProject/). She also coordinates the UPF’s research group CGyM (Colonialism, Gender and Materialities, https://www.upf.edu/web/cgym). Since 2015, she co-directs the archaeological excavations conducted at different locations in the island of Guam, Mariana Islands (western Pacific). These excavations and the previous projects aim to understand better processes of identity, change and continuity that relate to the incorporation of the Mariana Islands by the colonial network of the Spanish empire, with a special emphasis on the consequences that colonial sexual politics had on maintenance activities and the native bodies.

Her more recent publications include Modern Colonialism, Eurocentrism and Historical Archaeology: Some Engendered Thoughts (European Journal of Archaeology 2017), Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism (Springer 2016), The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia (Routledge 2015), Field Archaeology from around the world: ideas and approaches (Springer 2015) and “Qué es esa cosa llamada arqueología histórica” (Complutum 26 (1), 2015)."