Sandra Monton-Subias is an archaeologist and ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). She is currently PI in the project Material Culture, Colonialism and Gender in the Pacific. An approach from Historical Archaeology and director of the project ABERIGUA-Archaeology of Iberian Cultural Contact and Colonialism in Guam and the Mariana Islands. She also coordinates the UPF’s research group CGyM (Colonialism, Gender and Materialities). 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 gender and the consequences that colonial sexual politics had on maintenance activities and the native bodies.