Monday, July 9, 2012, Deadline for Submitting Dissertations for Consideration for the
the Society for Historical Archaeology's 2013  Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award

The 2013 Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award will be presented to a recent graduate whose dissertation is considered by the Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award Panel to be an outstanding contribution to historical archaeology. In January 2011, the SHA Board of Directors voted to change the name of the SHA Dissertation Prize to the Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award to honor Kathleen Kirk Gilmore, who passed away in 2010. She was a pioneer in the field of historical archaeology and a past president of the SHA.

The awardee will receive $1,000 at the time the award is presented at the annual meeting. Receipt of the award and the monetary prize are no longer dependent upon publication of the dissertation with the University Press of Florida. Awardees may take their dissertation to any press, including SHA.

If the winner chooses to work with SHA on publication of their dissertation, he or she will

 *   receive the endorsement of the society and an associate editor to guide them through the publication process
 *   receive assistance from SHA in finding the appropriate press and contract arrangements
 *   be required to assign copyright of the manuscript and donate any royalties for their book to SHA
 *   agree not to submit their dissertation for consideration elsewhere

If the choice is made not to publish through SHA, the winner is responsible for arranging publication on his or her own.

To be considered for the 2013 award, which will be presented at the annual meeting in Leicester, United Kingdom, in January 2013, nominees must have defended their dissertations and received a Ph.D. within three years prior to May 31, 2012. One unbound copy of the complete dissertation and three copies on CD-ROM or DVD must be provided to Teresita Majewski, chair of the Society for Historical Archaeology Awards Committee, by the date noted below (contact the chair for alternate methods to submit the digital version of the dissertation if necessary). The dissertation copies will not be returned. Very Important: The nominator or nominee must provide the nominee's contact information, including current mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number(s).

Nominations must be made by nonstudent SHA members and must consist of one nomination letter that makes a case for the dissertation. Self-nominations will not be accepted. NOMINEES MUST BE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.

Deadline for receipt of all materials (nomination letter[s] and copies of dissertations) is Monday, July 9, 2012, for the 2013 prize. The panel will begin their deliberations shortly thereafter.

The subcommittee expects to reach a consensus on the winner by early Fall 2012.

For more information or to submit nomination materials:

Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award
c/o Teresita Majewski, Chair, SHA Awards Committee
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Previous Dissertation Prize Winners:

·         2001 - Michelle M. Terrell, An Historical Archaeology of the 17th- and 18th- Century Jewish Community of Nevis, British West Indies, published by SHA-UPF in 2005 as The Jewish Community of Early Colonial Nevis: A Historical Archaeological Study<http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=TERRES03>

·         2002 - No prize was awarded

·         2003 - Kurt Jordan, The Archaeology of Iroquois Restoration: Settlement, Housing, and Economy at a Dispersed Seneca Community, ca. A.D. 1715-1754, published by SHA-UPF in 2008 as The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754: An Iroquois Local Political Economy<http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=JORDAF06>

·         2004 - Nathan Richards, Deep Structures: An Examination of Deliberate Watercraft Abandonment in Australia, published by SHA-UPF in 2008 as Ships' Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Formation Process<http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=RICHA001>

·         2005 - J. Cameron Monroe, Building Dahomey: Landscape, Architecture and Political Order in Atlantic West Africa

·         2006 - Elizabeth Kellar, Construction and Expression of Identity: An Archaeological Investigation of the Laborer Villages at Adrian Estate, St.John, USVI

·         2007 - Elizabeth Jordan, "From Time Immemorial": Washerwomen, Culture, and Community in Capetown, South Africa

·         2008 - Sarah Croucher, Plantations on Zanzibar: An Archaeological Approach to Complex Identities, forthcoming from Springer in 2011 as Capitalism and Cloves: An Archaeology of Plantation Life in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar<http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/archaeology+%26+anthropology/book/978-1-4419-8470-8?changeHeader>

·         2009 - Neil L. Norman, An Archaeology of West African Atlanticization: Regional Analysis of the Huedan Palace Districts and Countryside, Benin, 1650-1727

·         2010 - Meredith Linn, From Typhus to Tuberculosis and Fractures in Between: A Visceral Historical Archaeology of Irish Immigrant Life in New York City 1845-1870

·         2011 - Gérard Chouin, Forests of Power and Memory: An Archaeology of Sacred Groves in the Eguafo Polity, Southern Ghana (c. 500-1900 A.D.)

·         2012 - Liza Gijanto, Change and the Era of the Atlantic Trade: Commerce and Interaction in the Niumi Commercial Center (The Gambia).


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