Mitch Allen

Mitchell Allen is a Research Associate at Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley and at the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. He has a Ph.D. in Archaeology from  UCLA (1997) and taught that subject in five universities. His fieldwork has spanned Israel, Afghanistan, and California. Currently, he is writing up the results of a legacy survey project, the Helmand Sistan Project, Afghanistan, on which he was a junior archaeologist in the 1970s. In addition to his work in archaeology, Allen is founder and president of Scholarly Roadside Service, a scholarly publishing consulting company. He spent 40 years as an scholarly publisher, including two decades at Sage Publications then founding and running two independent social science presses, AltaMira Press and Left Coast Press, each of which had an archaeological focus. Overall he was responsible for the publication of over 1500 books and starting 25 journals.   Allen has written one book, coauthored a second, and had over 30 articles appear in refereed journals on archaeology, scholarly publishing, qualitative research, ethnic dance, and related subjects. Allen is recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the American Anthropological Association, International Congress of Qualitative Research, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and World Archaeological Congress.