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CONGRATULATIONS & PLEASE SIGN UP
The Society for Historical Archaeology is pleased to announce that the
SHA Awards Committee
has selected the first recipient of the JOHN L. COTTER AWARD in
Historical Archaeology.
The recipient is:
PAUL R. MULLINS
Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis
Mullins was nominated and selected for his new book, RACE AND AFFLUENCE, AN
ARCHAEOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICA AND CONSUMER CULTURE (1999), a book
which has helped to establish an entirely new topic (the study of race
and racism in the context
of capitalism) within the subject matter of historical archaeology.
Congratulations to Paul Mullins.
We want to urge that all members attending SHA 2000 in Quebec to sign up
for the Banquet-Awards Ceremony and join with us in honoring the memory
of John Cotter and our first
Cotter Award recipient. We especially want the SHA student members to
attend as the Cotter
Award is focused on people at the start of their careers including
undergraduate and graduate
students. If you have trouble affording the banquet ticket there will be
chairs placed in the room
you can use. Simply come about 45 min. after the banquet starts.
Students if they can afford it and all other SHA members please sign up
for the Banquet-Awards
Ceremony when you get your registration packets in the mail soon from Quebec.
Of course SHA will not only be honoring John's memory but will also be
recognizing the
accomplishments of several of our colleagues. Two leading scholars who
have helped to build
historical archaeology in Canada will receive SHA Awards of Merit:
ROBERT GRENIER Parks Canada
for pioneering in the establishment of underwater archaeology in Canada, and
MARCEL MOUSSETTE Laval University
for building historical archaeology both in regard to fieldwork and
education in Eastern Canada.
There will also be four separate but interrelated Awards of Merit
going to the: (1) City
of Quebec, (2) Laval University, (3) Culture and Communications
Department of the Province
of Quebec, and (4) Parks Canada for helping to preserve, explore and
bring to public view the
rich archaeological heritage of the City of Quebec.
Finally the J. C. HARRINGTON MEDAL, the first award created by SHA
(1981), will be presented in Quebec to:
RODERICK SPRAGUE of Idaho.
Rick Sprague is one of the founders of the discipline of Historical
Archaeology for the entire
Northwestern region of North American, a major educator, leading figure
in many scholarly
organizations and a work-horse in editorial contributions. He is
Northwest Historical Archaeology!
Karlis Karklins will use text and slides to tell the story of Sprague's
life and professional career.
Come to the Banquet-Awards Ceremony. Our hosts in Quebec have put
together an excellent
annual conference and the ceremony will be enjoyable and very informative
in regard to the
history of the discipline.
See you at the Awards Ceremony in Quebec City.
Robert L. Schuyler
Chair, SHA Awards Committee
P.S. If you are approaching Quebec in January by land (car or dog sled)
it may be far enough north (look at a map!) to watch out for Polar Bears
[these tend to be large, white, roundish, moving at high rates of speed
and they are not necessarily SHA members].
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