Michael Brian Schiffer, an archaeologist, historian of technology, and novelist, 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 of Anthropology.  He is currently a Research Associate in the Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.  His interests have included 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.  Schiffer’s nonfiction books include Behavioral Archaeology (1976), Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record (1987), The Portable Radio in American Life (1991), Taking Charge:  The Electric Automobile in America (1994), The Material Life of Human Beings (1999), Draw the Lightning Down:  Benjamin Franklin and Electrical Technology in the Age of Enlightenment (2003), Power Struggles:  Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison (2008), Studying Technological Change:  A Behavioral Approach (2011), The Archaeology of Science:  Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge (2013), Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World (2017), and Spectacular Flops:  Game-Changing Technologies that Failed (2019).  In addition, he has co-authored five cozy mysteries with his wife, Annette Schiffer, in the series, “The Oak Grove Chronicles.”   Finally, Schiffer wrote a political mystery, Scoop of the Century:  the Fateful Odyssey of Reporter Stella Weiss (2020).