CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:  JOHN L. COTTER AWARD

The Society for Historical Archaeology Awards Committee is pleased to announce
the fifth call for nominations for the John L. Cotter Award.  Nominators must be
SHA members. The Cotter Award is given to historical archaeologists at the start
of their careers.  They can either be in training as undergraduate or graduate
students or within the first five years of their professional careers.  The
award is given for a single achievement that is truly outstanding in its
respective category, but the nature and variety of categories is open.  An
achievement may be the production of an individual item (e.g., a first book) or
a more general category (e.g., building historical archaeology within a local
archaeological society).  Examples of such achievements include:

        A first major publication (book, monograph or report);
        A significant article;
        Major political work for historical archaeology;
        An outstanding MA thesis;
        Publicity for the discipline in the mass media;
        A major museum exhibit;
        Significant work for a scholarly organization.

The range and variety of contributions and achievements is fully open, however,
and the categories listed above are only obvious examples.

Nominators must fill out the Nomination Form and return it to the Chair of the
Awards Committee by June 30th, 2003, or earlier. The nominator will work with
the Chair in assembling a nomination file which, in turn, must be completed by
October 1st, 2003. The file will consist of:

        (1) the typed (double spaced) formal nomination;
        (2) an up-to-date Vita for the nominee;
        (3) a copy or sample of the specific achievement;
        (4) supporting materials including summations or different evidence of the
achievement and endorsements from secondary nominators.

Note: Secondary nominators are not required but if used they can either add
their names to the original nomination statement or they can write separate
letters of support. If they write letters, they are to be no longer than two
double-spaced typed pages.

Secondary nominators, unlike the primary nominator, do not have to be members of
the SHA or even in the field of historical archaeology.

Nominators should work closely with the Chair of the Awards Committee in
supplying the above items for completing a nomination file, and this process
must be completed by October 1st, 2003, at the latest.




NOMINATION FORM

JOHN L. COTTER AWARD IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY


NOMINATION

NAME (nominee)__________________________________________________

FULL ADDRESS__________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

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REASON FOR NOMINATION (please attach a typed [double-spaced] statement)


NOMINATOR

Name______________________________________________________________

Full Address_________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

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Telephone ______________                E-mail________________________________


Return form to:  Mary C. Beaudry, Chair, SHA Awards Committee, Department of
Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215?1406
USA.  FAX 617-353-6800; e-mail: [log in to unmask]


(Form can also be found on SHA Website awards section:  http://www.sha.org/.)