Bill Caraher |

One of my first opportunities to contribute to NDQ was as part of an expanded and refreshed editorial board. This was in 2014, and I supposed it emboldened me to proposed naively an issue dedicated to the “slow” movement.

When it appeared a year later, I felt like I had maybe started to earn my seat on the NDQ editorial board. Fortunately Rebecca Rozelle Stone, a professor of philosophy at UND agreed to co-edit it with me and added a thoughtful and intellectual patina to the entire issue. Our managing editor, Kate Sweney, diligently shepherded the issue through the publication process and the snail on the cover, I am guessing sourced by our art editor at the time, Lucy Ganje, was just perfect.

I was particularly pleased when I saw that some of my academic colleagues have read and cited my contribution: “Slow Archaeology.” In fact, this paper was the first in a series of pieces that used the idea of slow to comment on the use of technology (and forms of industrial organization) in archaeological field work.

Anyway, the entire issue is lovely and you can download it for free from our archive. Check it out here.

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Bill Caraher is the editor of NDQ and a slow archaeologist by training and preference.