Reuben Grima is associate professor in the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage at the University of Malta, where he coordinates a taught MA programme in Cultural Heritage Management. He read for his PhD in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, while holding a Commonwealth Scholarship. From 2003 to 2011, he served as Heritage Malta’s Senior Curator responsible for Malta’s two prehistoric World Heritage Sites. Between 2015 and 2020, he was a member of the FRAGSUS project, funded by the European Research Council to investigate fragility and stability in restricted island environments. In 2022, while holding a Shortland-Jones Fellowship at the British School at Rome, he pursued research on early modern antiquarian networks between Malta and Rome. His current research interests include cultural landscapes, the history of archaeology and archaeological sites, and public engagement with the past.