Patty Jo Watson Distinguished Lecture
Student Diversity Travel Grant
AD Sponsorship of SAA Symposium
AD Sponsorship of AAA Symposia
PATTY JO WATSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Past Distinguished Lecturers
| 2023 | Sonya Atalay | Braiding New Research Worlds: Archaeology, Storywork, and Indigenous Wellbeing |
| 2021 | William Doelle | Preservation Archaeology from Bear’s Lodge to Bear’s Ears: Tracing an Evolving Ethic |
| 2020 | No conference due to COVID | |
| 2019 | Lynn Meskell | Imperialism, Internationalism and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East |
| 2018 | Charles Cobb | The Topology of Erasure-An Archaeology of Remembering Through Forgetting. |
| 2017 | Ann Stahl | Assembling ‘Effective Archaeologies’ for Equitable Futures |
| 2016 | Randall McGuire | The Talking Dog’s Tale: Archaeology is Anthropology. |
| 2015 | Susan Pollock | The Subject of Suffering. |
| 2014 | Joe Watkins | Past Matters. |
| 2013 | Robert L. Kelly | The Abyss: An Archaeologist Looks to the Future. |
| 2012 | Susan D. Gillespie | The Entanglement of Jade and the Rise of Meseomerica. |
| 2011 | Barbara J. Mills | From Communities of Practice to Social Networks: Thinking Relationally in Archaeology. |
| 2010 | Michael Brian Schiffer | Anthropological Archaeology: Where Did We Go Wrong? |
| 2009 | Barbara J. Little | Reintegrating Archaeology in the Service of Sustainable Culture |
| 2008 | Alison Wylie | Legacies of Collaboration: Transformative Criticism in Archaeology |
| 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 Archaeological Interpretation |
| 1989 | Charles Redman | In Defense of the Seventies: The Adolescence of New Archaeology and Its Progeny in the Nineties |
GORDON R. WILLEY PRIZE
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 a distinguished archaeologist who 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.
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.
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:
| 2023 | Tsim Schneider | “Dancing on the Brink of the World”: Seeing Indigenous Dance and Resilience in the Archaeology of Colonial California |
| 2022 | Jodi A. Barnes | Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: An Archaeology of Reproductive Oppression at the Intersections |
| 2021 | Ryan Morini | “What Are We Doing to Those Shoshone People?”: The Ontological Politics of a Shoshone Grinding Stone |
| 2020 | Dana Lepofsky, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Spencer Greening, Julia Jackley, Jennifer Carpenter, Brenda Guernsey, Darcy Matthews, and Nancy J. Turner | Historical Ecology of Cultural Keystone Places of the Northwest Coast |
| 2019 | Gabriella Soto | Object Afterlives and the Burden of History: Between ‘Trash’ and ‘Heritage’ in the Steps of Migrants |
| 2018 | Dante Angelo | Histories of a Burnt House: An Archaeology of Negative Spaces and Dispossession |
| 2017 | Amanda L. Logan | “Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?”: Archaeology as Alternative Archive of Food Security in Banda, Ghana |
| 2016 | Cathy Cameron | How People Moved among Ancient Societies: Broadening the View |
| 2015 | Eleanor Harrison-Buck | Architecture as Animate Landscape: Circular Shrines in the Ancient Maya Lowlands |
| 2014 | Christopher T. Morehart | What if the Aztec Empire Never Existed? The Prerequisites of Empire and the Polities of Plausible Alternative Histories |
| 2013 | Charles R. Cobb and Chester B. DePratter | Multisited Research on Colonowares and the Paradox of Globalization |
| 2012 | Kathryn J.W. Arthur | Feminine Knowledge and Skill Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools |
| 2011 | April M. Beisaw | Memory, Identity, and NAGPRA in the Northeastern United States |
| 2010 | Thomas H. McGovern, Orri Vésteinsson, Adolph Fridriksson, Mike Church, Ian Lawson, Ian A Simpson, Arni Einarsson, Andy Dugmore, Gordon Cook, Sophia Perdikaris, Kevin J. Edwards, Amanda M. Thomson, W. Paul Adderley, Anthony Newton, Gavin Lucas, Ragnar Edvardsson, Oscar Aldred, and Elaine Dunbar | Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale |
| 2009 | Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and T. J. Ferguson | Memory Pieces and Footprints: Multivocality and the Meanings of Ancient Times and Ancestral Places among the Zuni and Hopi |
| 2008 | Barbara Voss | From Casta to Californio: Social Identity and the Archaeology of Culture Contact |
| 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 |
Established in 1950, the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology was initially 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 (Mexico and Central America) and the archaeology of the Southwestern region — areas that were both central to the pioneering and exemplary work of A. V. Kidder.
You may submit a “Kidder Award nomination” by e-mail to the AD President. Please submit all documentation, preferably in a PDF format.
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2024. The award will be presented at the AAA business meeting at the annual meetings.
Past Kidder Award Winners:
| 2022 | Rosemary A. Joyce and Patricia A. McAnany |
| 2018 | Patricia Crown |
| 2016 | Jeremy Sabloff |
| 2014 | Timothy Kohler |
| 2012 | Wendy Ashmore |
| 2010 | William D. Lipe |
| 2008 | David C. Grove |
| 2006 | Jeffrey S. Dean |
| 2004 | George L. Cowgill and René Millon |
| 2001 | Linda S. Cordell |
| 1998 | Jeffrey R. Parsons |
| 1995 | Jesse D. Jennings |
| 1992 | Kent V. Flannery |
| 1989 | Richard B. Woodbury |
| 1986 | Ignacio Bernal |
| 1983 | Watson Smith |
| 1980 | William T. Sanders |
| 1977 | Emil W. Haury |
| 1974 | Gordon R. Willey |
| 1971 | Richard S. MacNeish |
| 1968 | Paul S. Martin |
| 1965 | Neil Judd |
| 1962 | Tatiana Proskouriakoff |
| 1959 | Charles C. DiPeso |
| 1956 | Samuel K. Lothrop |
| 1953 | Earl H. Morris |
| 1950 | Alfred Marston Tozzer |
STUDENT DIVERSITY TRAVEL GRANT
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, 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 $600 each will be awarded. Students may apply for and receive this award more than once, although priority is given to first-time applicants using 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 during the AAA meeting.
Applications are due via e-mail by September 30 to the AD Secretary and should include the following:
- Completed cover sheet (download Word Document or download interactive PDF 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.
Past Diversity Travel Grant Winners:
| 2023 | Tony Chamoun | Syracuse University |
| Cheng Liu | Emory University | |
| 2022 | Nicole Smith | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2021 | No award given | |
| 2020 | No conference due to COVID | |
| 2019 | Robert Benitez | University of Arizona |
| James W. Campbell | Harvard University | |
| Cindy Hsin-yee Huang | Arizona State University | |
| Koji Lau-Ozawa | University of Arizona | |
| 2018 | Aja Lans | Syracuse University |
| Nicole Smith | University of Michigan | |
| 2017 | Cristina Carter | Florida State University |
| Timothy Wilcox | Stanford University | |
| 2016 | Luisa Abersold | University of Texas Austin |
| Joseph Aguilar | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Tiyas Bhattacharyya | University of Illinois | |
| Jose Miguel Kanxoc Kumul | Universidad de Oriente | |
| Aja Lans | Syracuse University | |
| 2015 | Tiffany Cain | University of Pennsylvania |
| Amanda Guzman | University of California Berkeley | |
| 2014 | Juan R. Argueta Jr. | Wichita State University |
| 2013 | Tiffany Cain | University of Pennsylvania |
| Lynn Kim | University of Texas, San Antonio | |
| David Rafael McCormick | University of South Florida | |
| Davina Two Bears | Indiana University | |
| 2012 | Annelise Morris | University of California Berkeley |
| Paulette F. Steeves | Binghamton University | |
| 2011 | No award given | |
| 2010 | Moshe Adamu | University of Florida |
| Adela Amaral | University of Chicago | |
| Jessica Cerezo-Román | University of Arizona | |
| Sebastian Salgado-Flores | University of Texas San Antonio | |
| Ana Tejeda | Northwestern University | |
| Shankari Patel | University of California Riverside | |
| Rhianna Rogers | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Tsim Schneider | University of California Berkeley | |
| 2008 | Edward Jolie | University of New Mexico |
| Karen Pereira | University of Florida | |
| Dana Shew | University of Denver | |
| 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 | |
| Uzma Zehra Rizvi | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Grace S. R. Turner | College of William and Mary | |
| 2004 | Jason Patrick De Leon | Pennsylvania State University |
| Olivia Clementina Navarro-Farr | Southern Methodist University | |
| Janet Six | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Nawa Sugiyama | Arizona State University | |
| Radhika Sundararjan-Bauer | University of Pennsylvania |
The Archaeology Division (AD) seeks to support student membership in the AAA and in the AD to maintain and strengthen the representation of archaeology within the AAA. The AD will award the next year’s membership in both AAA and AD to up to 20 students who present archaeological papers or posters at the annual meeting. This award has a value of between $75 and $135, depending on a student’s AAA membership status.
All students who present an archaeological paper or poster at the annual meeting are eligible to apply for this award. Up to three awards will be allocated specifically for undergraduates. If more than 20 eligible individuals apply, the awardees will be chosen by random methods. Students may apply for and receive this award more than once, although priority is given to first-time applicants.
Applications are due by September 30 to the Student Member at Large (click on Officers for contact information) via e-mail (as a Word document or PDF attachment-please include your last name in the name of the attachment) or snail mail. They should include the following:
- Your name, address, and email (or other contact information)
- Your AAA membership number
- Your institution
- The degree you are working on
- Expected date of this degree
- The title of your accepted paper/poster
- Is this your first AAA paper (yes or no)
Past Student Membership Winners:
| 2023 | Diane Slocum | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| 2021 | Nathan Klembara | Binghamton University |
| Sophie Reilly | Northwestern University | |
| 2020 | No conference due to COVID | |
| 2019 | Anna Demsey Alves | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Robert Benitez | University of Arizona | |
| James W. Campbell | Harvard University | |
| Cindy Hsin-yee Huang | Arizona State University | |
| Koji Lau-Ozawa | Stanford University | |
| John Murray | Arizona State University | |
| 2018 | Annalisa Bolin | Stanford University |
| Kasey Diserens Morgan | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Chandler Fitzsimons | The College of William & Mary | |
| Laura Heath-Stout | Boston University | |
| Jade Robison | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | |
| Anne Sherfield | University of Michigan | |
| Liam Wadsworth | University of Alberta | |
| 2017 | Cristina Carter | Florida State University |
| David Cranford | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | |
| Krista Eschbach | Arizona State University | |
| Rémi Hadad | University of Paris-Nanterre | |
| Marc Lorenc | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
| Matt Magnani | Harvard University | |
| Justin Reamer | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Elena Sesma | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
| Craig Stevens | American University | |
| Sarah Striker | Arizona State University | |
| Evan Taylor | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | |
| Andrea Torvinen | Arizona State University | |
| Andrew Upton | Michigan State University | |
| 2016 | Tiyas Bhattacharyya | University of Illinois |
| Lisa Bright | Michigan State University | |
| Shaheen M. Christie | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |
| Maia Dedrick | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | |
| Jose Miguel Kanxoc Kumul | Universidad de Oriente | |
| Michael Spears | University of Arizona | |
| Adam Sutherland | University of Illinois | |
| Andrea Torvinen | Arizona State University | |
| 2015 | Leslie Aragon | University of Arizona |
| Lewis Borck | University of Arizona | |
| Tiffany Cain | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Hannah Chazin | University of Chicago | |
| Rachel Horowitz | Tulane University | |
| Elizabeth Konwest | Indiana University | |
| Morgan Krause | DePaul University | |
| Matthew Magnani | Harvard University | |
| Nadya Prociuk | University of Texas | |
| Anna Schneider | University of Colorado | |
| 2014 | Maia Dedrick | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| David Mixter | Washington University | |
| Jon Spenard | University of California, Riverside | |
| 2013 | Rebecca Friedel | University of Texas, San Antonio |
| Lynn Kim | University of Texas, San Antonio | |
| Katy M. Meyers | Michigan State University | |
| Emily Shepard | Portland State University | |
| Christopher Shephard | College of William and Mary | |
| 2012 | Manuel Perales | Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú |
| Dana Bardolph | University of California Santa Barbara | |
| 2011 | Francois Buindon Dru McGill Anastasiya Travina | University of Aberdeen Indiana University University of Texas, San Marcos |
| 2010 | No award given | |
| 2009 | Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels | Stanford University |
| Rhianna C. Rogers | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Maria Raviele | Michigan State University | |
| Tobin Hartnell | University of Chicago | |
| Diana T. Dyste Anzures | University of California Santa Barbara | |
| Kathy Koziol | University of Arkansas | |
| Ana S. Tejeda | Northwestern University | |
| Christine N. Reiser | Brown University | |
| Emily Poeppel | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
AAA ARCHAEOLOGY DIVISION SPONSORSHIP AT THE SAAs
In the interests of promoting discussion of topics, research, and theory of broad significance to anthropology and of strategic concern to archaeologists, the Archaeology Division sponsors a session at the annual SAA meeting. In addition to being marked as an AD sponsored session in the program, the AD will provide snacks.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY August 10 to the President-Elect (click on Officers for contact information) via e-mail (as a Word document or PDF attachment). Please include your last name in the file name of the attachment. The application should include the following:
- Title and abstract of the proposed session
- Complete list of participants
- Complete list of discussion topics (if a forum) or titles and abstracts of all individual papers
The major criterion for the selection of AD sponsorship is how well the proposed symposium exemplifies a holistic anthropological approach to a topic in archaeology.
A decision will be made by August 31. The designation of AD sponsorship must be included with the submission to the SAA Program Committee by their deadline in early September.”
AD SPONSORSHIP OF AAA SYMPOSIA
Pre-organized sponsored sessions: The AD annually sponsors one or more innovative, synthesizing sessions intended to reflect the state-of-the-art and thematic concerns in archaeology. These sessions appear on the program as ‘invited’. Sessions should be submitted using the AAA submissions portal and designated for AD review to be considered eligible for AD sponsorship. Members should work closely with the Program Editor when planning invited sessions. The AD may solicit an Invited Session that addresses a particular theme, but all submissions will be welcome and considered. The major criterion for the selection of AD sponsorship is how well the proposed symposium exemplifies a holistic anthropological approach to a topic in archaeology.
DEADLINES VARY ANNUALLY Please check the AAA website for details.