News

• Published in November 2022:The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1: Survey and Excavation. With William B. Trousdale, by Edinburgh University Press. 
• The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 2: Environment and Material Culture, with William B. Trousdale, by Edinburgh University Press, is in process for publication in 2024.
• Website for the Helmand Sistan Project is currently in development, a public display of our research findings. Stay tuned. 
• Mitch teaches community education archaeology courses for Elder College, part of Vancouver Island University. Next class: How Archaeologists Know What They Know, September 2023.   
• Mitch has been renewed through 2025 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.
• Recently presented, The Thousand Year Shrine, Society for American Archaeology, April 2023 
• Recently participated in a roundtable on open access publishing in archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, April 2023
• Recently presented, Parthian-era Agriculture in Afghan Sistan at the American Anthropological Association conference in Seattle, November 2022. 
• Recently presented, Visual Sistan, at UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, September 2022. 
• Forthcoming papers to be presented on Field Notes as Material Culture (May 2023, International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry), Sistan in Brown and Green (November 2023, American Schools of Overseas Research)
• Recent consulting clients: a scholarly organization looking for a publishing partner for their book series, a family-owned social science press, a popular book on the beginning of the Iron Age, editors of a university press, capstone book of a major biological anthropologist.