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• Now in production: The Helmand Baluch, by Ghulam Rahman Amiri, Berghahn Books, est. publication Fall 2020. The ethnographic part of the Helmand Sistan Project that Mitch is compiling for publication. Amiri's book is a detailed analysis of the Baluch villages of the Helmand Valley in the 1970s when the project was active. One of the earliest native ethnographies of Afghanistan, done by director of excavations of the Afghan Institute of Archaeology. Supplemented and edited by William B. Trousdale and Mitch Allen. 
• Now in production: Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century, by William B. Trousdale, Brill Publishing, est. publication Fall 2020. Mitch served as editor for this publication by his mentor Bill Trousdale. 
• Website for the Helmand Sistan Project is currently in development, a public display of our research findings. Stay tuned. 
• Recent presentation on Sistan as a Medieval Indo-Iranian Borderland at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, February 2020. 
• Recently published: Early Iron Age Culture of Sistan, Afghanistan, in the journal Afghanistan 2:1, February 2020. Write me for an offprint. 
• Recently published: The Autoethnographer's Ball, in the first issue of the new Journal of Autoethnography , January 2020. Write me for an offprint.
• Mitch began teaching community education archaeology courses for Elder College, part of Vancouver Island University, in January 2020. More scheduled for fall.  
• 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. 
• Recently Published: Social Media Marketing of Qualitative Research: Blurring Commerce and Continuity, in the journal Qualitative Inquiry, Nov. 2019 Write me for an offprint
• Recently Published: Scholarly Publishing of Archaeology, in the  Global Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd edition (Claire Smith, editor, Springer Publisher), Nov. 2019
• Recent presentation, poster on The Helmand Baluch, American Anthropological Association conference, Vancouver November 2019. Write me for a copy. 
• Recently Published: Beware the Predatory Journal: It's not Just Fieldwork that is Dangerous in SAA Archaeological Record, May 2018. 
• Mitch has been renewed through 2022 as 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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