Committee Charge

Objectives: This committee organizes and reviews the nominations for specific AAA awards and selects a recommended winner for each.

Duration of Committee: Permanent

Committee Reports to: AAA Executive Board

Responsibilities:

• to organize and review information regarding the nominations and recommend winners for the following AAA awards:
  • The Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology;
  • The Anthropology in Media Award;
  • The Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology; and
  • The AAA/Oxford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• Coordinates with the SfAA for the Margaret Mead Award to ensure that winner is selected in a timely way. 
  
• Committee members are encouraged to attend the Awards Ceremony at the AAA Annual Meetings where they will be recognized by the AAA President

Membership and Appointment:

• Five-member committee including the chair
• Three-year terms
• Committee members are appointed by the president with one seat designated for a student
• This committee is chaired by an appointed member of the executive board
• The appointment of the new chair is made the year prior to the departure of the sitting chair. This is an ex-officio non-voting role.

Product: A written report to the Executive Board.

Meetings and Schedule: Committee meets in the spring.

Staff Liaison and contact information:
Kathy Ano, American Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201, Phone: (703) 528-1902, Fax: (703) 528-3546.