CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:  JOHN L. COTTER AWARD

The Society for Historical Archaeology Awards Committee is pleased to
announce the sixth 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, 2004, or earlier. The nominator will
work with the Chair in assembling a nomination file which, in turn, must
be completed by October 1st, 2004. 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, 2004, at the latest.




NOMINATION FORM

JOHN L. COTTER AWARD IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY


NOMINATION

NAME
(nominee)_________________________________________________
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FULL
ADDRESS_________________________________________________
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REASON FOR NOMINATION (please attach a typed [double-spaced]
statement)


NOMINATOR

Name____________________________________________________
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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:
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