User:Kaantczak

Konrad, from Caracas, Venezuela, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Rollins College in 2011 with a major in anthropology and a minor in archaeology. He completed his M.A. at William and Mary in 2014, concerning the politics of punch drinking among New England seafarers visiting the island of La Tortuga in the 18th century. His doctoral interests focus on the historical archaeology of 17th–19th-century salt exploitation on the offshore islands of Venezuela and aim to trace the salt’s entanglements with the Atlantic World beyond. Using the Caribbean salt trade as a window onto the past, Konrad is specifically interested in reconstructing the social, economic and material lives of merchant seafarers from this time period.