News

• See Calendar for upcoming talks on archaeology and publishing.
• Current consulting job is with Equinox Publishing to help them launch a new journal, Archaeology of Food and Foodways, edited by Shanti Morell-Hart, Erica Rown, and Shinya Shoda. First issue will be published in mid 2020 and first announcement of it will be released in March 2019. 
• Recently Published: Social Media Marketing of Qualitative Research: Blurring Commerce and Continuity, in the journal Qualitative Inquiry, Nov. 2019
• Recently Published: Scholarly Publishing of Archaeology, in the  Global Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd edition (Claire Smith, editor, Springer Publisher), Nov. 2019
• Recently Published: Beware the Predatory Journal: It's not Just Fieldwork that is Dangerous in SAA Archaeological Record, May 2018. 
• Recently Published: Qualitative Publishing in a Post-Tenure World, in Giardina and Denzin, Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times, Routledge, May 2018
• I have been invited to include my paper The Autoethnographer's Ball, 2039  in the inaugural issue of  the Journal of Autoethnography, being launched by U California  Press in 2020 and edited by Tony Adams and Andrew Hermann. 
• The first research article from the newly-constituted Helmand Sistan Project, The Early Iron Age Culture of Sistan, Afghanistan, will appear in the spring 2019 issue of the journal Afghanistan, published by U Edinburgh Press and edited by Warwick Ball. 
• Bill Trousdale and I contributed material on the Early Iron Age in Sistan to the new edition of Archaeology of Afghanistan, edited by Warwick Ball and Norman Hammond, and due to be published by U Edinburgh Press in April 2019. We also provided material to the 3rd edition of the Gazeteer of Afghanistan (Warwick Ball and Oxford U Press), due to be published later in 2019. 
• Recent presentations include a talk on the site of Shahr-i Gholghola in Afghanistan at American Schools of Oriental Research conference, November 2018, a presentation at the Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry, January 2019, and the first general talk about the Helmand Sistan Project in Afghanistan, at UC Berkeley's Archaeological Research Facility in January 2019.
• I've been made a Research Associate with the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, as a result of the project he is now working on: preparing for publication the results of the Helmand-Sistan Project, Afghanistan. The good folks at the SI have linked me in as part of their support for getting the project  published thirty five years after the end of fieldwork. The Smithsonian partially funded and oversaw the fieldwork in the 1970s and is offering invaluable administrative and financial help with artifacts and plans, both of which are still housed at the Smithsonian. 
• I have been made a Research Associate at the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley, one of the largest, smartest collection of archaeologists in the world. Very honored to be included in the group. Duties include going to their regular sets of lectures, attending all the wine and cheese parties, and giving an occasional workshop on archaeological publishing.  
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