The Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award honors individual researchers or research project teams who exhibit outstanding best practices in community collaboration, engagement, and outreach in their historical archaeology and heritage preservation work. This award is reviewed by members of the Gender and Minority Affairs Committee of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The submission guidelines and form are available on the SHA web site at https://sha.org/about-us/awards-and-prizes/. 

The award commemorates the life and career of Mark E. Mack and encourages diversity in the SHA and our profession by cultivating relationships between archaeologists and stakeholder communities. Mack was well known for his work on the New York African Burial Ground project. He was a professor of anthropology at Howard University and curator of the university’s W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory. Throughout his career, he exemplified many of the qualities we value as best practices in community, stakeholder collaboration.

The deadline for submission is November 1, 2022. Please consider submitting an award nomination! Awardees will be announced at the Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology to be held in Lisbon, January 4-7, 2023. First, second, and third place winners will be recognized by certificates and acknowledged on the SHA website. Please contact me with any questions. 

Thanks very much!
Chris Fennell

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