Michael Brian Schiffer, an archaeologist, graduated with a B.A. in anthropology from UCLA in 1969 and earned his graduate degrees from the University of Arizona (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1973).  From 1975 to 2014, he served on the faculty of the University of Arizona, most recently as the Fred A. Riecker Distinguished Professor.  Although, early on, he did fieldwork in the American Southwest, he is not an areal specialist.  Rather, his interests are topical, and the topics have changed over time.  Among his interests have been cultural resource management, formation processes of the archaeological record, experimental archaeology (ceramics), human (nonverbal) communication, technological change, materiality, and history of electrical science and technologies.  His overarching interest has the development of method and theory in behavioral archaeology.  Schiffer’s books include Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record (1987), The Portable Radio in American Life (1991), The Material Life of Human Beings (1999), Power Struggles:  Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison (2008), Studying Technological Change:  A Behavioral Approach (2011), and The Archaeology of Science:  Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge (2013).  His latest book is in press:  Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World.