Student Diversity Travel Grant
AD Sponsorship of SAA Symposium
Beginning with the 1989 Annual Meeting, the Archaeology Division inaugurated a series of Distinguished Lectures. Each lecturer delivers a talk at the Annual Meeting, and the distinguished lectures may subsequently be published in American Anthropologist.
Past Distinguished Lecturers
| 2007 | Philip L. Kohl | Shared Social Fields: Evolutionary Convergence in Prehistory and Contemporary Practice |
| 2006 | David Hurst Thomas |
Way Past Reburial and Repatriation: American Archaeology in the Active Voice |
| 2005 |
Colin Renfrew |
Beyond the Sapient Paradox: Genetic and Cultural Trajectories |
| 2003 |
Rosemary A. Joyce |
Doing Things: Anthropology as Archaeology |
| 2002 | Timothy Earle | Who Makes Culture: Alternative Media for Social Expression and Control |
| 2001 | William Longacre | Archaeology as Anthropology Revisited |
| 2000 | Wendy Ashmore | Decisions and Dispositions: Socializing Spatial Archaeology |
| 1999 | Theresa Singleton | Other Voices, Other Times: Historical Archaeology and Perceptions of the Past |
| 1998 | Gil Stein | Diasporas, Colonies and World Systems: Rethinking the Archaeology of Interregional Interaction |
| 1997 | Margaret Conkey | Paleolithic Pathways: Archaeological Theory and Practice of the Deep Past |
| 1996 |
Jeremy Sabloff |
The Past and Future of American Archaeology |
| 1995 |
Patrick V. Kirch |
Microcosmic Histories: Island Perspectives on Global Change |
| 1994 |
Carol Kramer | The Quick and the Dead |
| 1993 |
Mark Leone |
Historical Archaeology Of and Against the State |
| 1992 |
George L. Cowgill |
Beyond Criticizing New Archaeology |
| 1991 |
Elizabeth Brumfiel |
Breaking and Entering the Ecosystem: Gender, Class, and Faction Steal the Show |
| 1990 |
Bruce Trigger | Constraint and Freedom: A New Synthesis of Archeological Interpretation |
| 1989 |
Charles Redman | In Defense of the Seventies: The Adolescence of New Archaeology and Its Progeny in the Nineties |
This prize recognizes the best archaeology paper published in the American Anthropologist over a period of three years. Named after Professor Gordon R. Willey, the award recognizes one of the few archaeologists to have served as President of the AAA, in 1961. It encourages archaeologists to pursue Willey's well-known maxim (even if he did not first pen it!) that archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing.
The award winner is selected from those papers published in the American Anthropologist in the three calendar years previous to the year of the award (excluding the distinguished lectures). Since the inauguration of the award in 1997, the following papers have been selected for recognition:
| 2007 | Christopher Fisher | Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Patzcuaro Basin, Mexico: Abandoning the Garden |
| 2006 | Barbara J. Mills | The Establishment and Defeat of Hierarchy: Inalienable Possessions and the History of Collective Prestige Structures in the Pueblo Southwest |
| 2005 |
Katherine A. Spielmann |
Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of Production in Small Scale Societies |
| 2004 |
Brian S. Bauer and R. Alan Covey |
Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru) |
| 2003 |
Lisa J. LeCount |
Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize |
| 2002 |
Susan D. Gillespie |
Rethinking Ancient Maya Social Organization: Replacing "Lineage" with "House" |
| 2001 |
James E. Snead |
Science, Commerce, and Control: Patronage and the Development of Anthropological Archaeology in the Americas |
| 2000 | Glenn Davis Stone and Christian E. Downum |
Non-Boserupian Ecology and Agricultural Risk: Ethnic Politics and Land Control in the Arid Southwest |
| 1998 | Patricia Crown and Suzanne Fish |
Gender and Status in the Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic Transition |
| 1997 | Melinda Zeder | After the Revolution: Post-Neolithic Subsistence in Northern Mesopotamia |
In 2005 the Gordon R. Willey Endowment Fund was established as a permanent endowment to provide a stable income for the awarding of this prize.
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW BEING SOUGHT FOR A MESOAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST FOR THE 2008 AWARD. THEY ARE DUE FEBRUARY 15, 2008 TO THE AD SECRETARY. (información en español)
Established in 1950, the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the field of American archaeology was given every three years to an outstanding archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of the Americas. The award has been given alternately to specialists in Mesoamerican archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern region--areas that were both central to the pioneering and exemplary work of A. V. Kidder.
This award, presented by the AAA but selected by the AD, is now given every two years. Nominations should be sent by FEBRUARY 15 of the year in which the award is given to the AD Secretary. They should be comprised of a cover letter of nomination, stating explicitly the qualifications and accomplishments of the nominee, and a CV. They will be reviewed by a specially selected Kidder Award Committee.
Please address all nomination materials to the Kidder Award Committee and mail them to the following address:
Kidder Award Committee
c/o Rani T. Alexander
Dept of Sociology and Anthropology
New Mexico State University
MSC 3BV/Box 30001
329 Breland Hall, Stewart St.
Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
Electronic submissions sent via email to the AD Secretary (raalexan@nmsu.edu) will be forwarded to the Kidder Award Committee. Please include “Kidder Award Committee” in the subject line.
Past Kidder Award winners:
| Jeffrey S. Dean | 2006 |
| George L. Cowgill and René Millon | 2004 |
| Linda S. Cordell | 2001 |
| Jeffrey R. Parsons | 1998 |
| Jesse D. Jennings | 1995 |
| Kent V. Flannery | 1992 |
| Richard B. Woodbury | 1989 |
| Ignacio Bernal | 1986 |
| Watson Smith | 1983 |
| William T. Sanders | 1980 |
| Emil W. Haury | 1977 |
| Gordon R. Willey | 1974 |
| Richard S. MacNeish | 1971 |
| Paul S. Martin | 1968 |
| Neil Judd | 1965 |
| Tatiana Proskouriakoff | 1962 |
| Charles C. DiPeso | 1959 |
| Samuel K. Lothrop | 1956 |
| Earl H. Morris | 1953 |
| Alfred Marsten Tozzer | 1950 |
Student Diversity Travel Grant
Established in 2004, these grants are intended to increase participation in AAA sessions and in archaeology more widely by students from historically under-represented populations. African American, Alaskan Native, American Indian or Native American, Asian American, Latino and Latina, Chicano and Chicana, and Pacific Islander students in archaeology are encouraged to apply for these travel grants to help defray costs associated with attending the AAA meeting. Archaeology students with disabilities are also eligible for this grant.
Up to four grants, of up to $500 each, will be awarded. Applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
● First priority is given to students presenting a paper or poster.
● Within that group, priority is given to students presenting a paper or poster for the first time at the AAA.
● Within that group, priority is given based on the distance a student must travel to the meeting.
All students who apply for a grant are also invited to arrange a meeting with any member of the AD Executive Committee during the annual meeting for professional advice and mentoring.
Recipients will be acknowledged and receive their award at the AD Business Meeting on Friday evening during the AAA meeting.
To apply, please submit the following:
● Completed cover sheet (download Word document)
● CV of not more than 2 pages (number as pages 2 and 3 in the same file after the cover sheet)
● Letter of reference from a scholar or advisor who knows your work. Please ask that the recommender submit the letter independently by the deadline.
Applications should be sent as an attachment to an e-mail to the Archaeology Division Secretary. Please include your last name in the name of the attachment. The Secretary’s contact information can be found in the list of AD Officers–see button at the top of this page.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 15.
If electronic submission of these materials is not possible, please contact the AD Secretary for a postal address.
Previous Travel Grant Winners:
| 2007 | Deanna Dartt-Newton | University of Oregon |
| Kelly Peterson | McMaster University | |
| Kerry Thompson | University of Arizona | |
| 2006 | Jason J. González | Southern Illinois University |
| Olaf Jaime-Riveron | University of Kentucky | |
| Ora V. Marek |
University of California, Berkeley | |
| Sean Näleimale | University of Hawai'i, Manoa | |
| Gina Quistiano Zavala | Indiana University | |
| 2005 |
Sara L. Gonzalez |
University of California, Berkeley |
| Desireé Reneé Martinez |
Harvard University |
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| Uzma Zehra Rizvi |
University of Pennsylvania |
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| Grace S. R. Turner |
College of William and Mary |
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| 2004 |
Jason Patrick De Leon |
Pennsylvania State University |
| Olivia Clementina Navarro-Farr |
Southern Methodist University |
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| Janet Six |
University of Pennsylvania |
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| Nawa Sugiyama |
Arizona State University |
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| Radhika Sundararjan-Bauer |
University of Pennsylvania |
AD Sponsorship of SAA Symposium
The AD annually sponsors a symposium at the Society for American Archaeology Meeting.
Proposals for AD sponsorship for the 2008 SAA Meeting in Vancouver, BC, should be submitted by August 20, 2007. A decision will be made by August 31, 2007. The designation of AD sponsorship must be included with the submission to the SAA Program Committee by their deadline of September 5.
A proposal should include:
Title and abstract of symposium
Complete list of participants and titles of papers
As many abstracts of individual papers as possible
The major criterion for selection of AD sponsorship is how well the proposed symposium exemplifes a holistic anthropological approach to a topic in archaeology.
Please send complete proposals as an email attachment, in either MS Word or plain text format, to President-Elect Janet Levy at jelevy@uncc.edu by August 20, 2007.