Dr. Matthew C. Reilly is an associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary programs at the City College of New York and co-subfield coordinator for archaeology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He currently directs archaeological research in Barbados and works with the Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology project in Liberia. His work explores issues of race, colonialism, heritage, slavery, sovereignty, and freedom in the Caribbean and West Africa. In addition to multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, he is the coeditor of Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: Past Present, and Future Research Directions (Sidestone Press, 2019) and author of Archaeology Below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society (University of Alabama Press, 2019).