Mitchell Allen

Biography

Mitchell Allen is founder and president of Scholarly Roadside Service, a scholarly publishing consulting company. In his 40 year career as an academic publisher, he spent two decades at Sage Publications then founded and ran two independent social science presses, AltaMira Press and Left Coast Press. Overall he was responsible for the publication of over 1500 books and 25 new journals. Allen received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from UCLA and has pursued that career simultaneous with his publishing one. He has written one book, coauthored a second, and had over 30 articles appear in refereed journals on scholarly publishing, qualitative research, archaeology, and related subjects. He taught archaeology at five different universities and led publishing workshops for scholars on five continents. 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.