Current Committee Charge: The Student Poster Award Committee is charged with evaluating submissions to and selecting the recipient of the Student Poster Award.
Committee Composition: Committee composition is one chair and two members.
Committee Chair and End of Term: M. Kat Brown [2013]
Committee Chair Contact Information: M. Kathryn Brown, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Anthropology, San Antonio, TX, email: kathryn.brown@utsa.edu
Committee Members and Ends of Terms: Chris Rodning [2013], Mark Slaughter [2013]
Board Liaison: Melinda Zeder
Award Description: This award acknowledges the best student presentation of archaeological research in poster sessions. Student posters will be evaluated as electronic submissions made directly to the Student Poster Award committee.
Who Is Eligible to Apply or Submit Nominations: All student members of SAA in good standing whose poster abstract has been accepted by the SAA for the upcoming annual meeting are eligible to participate. All co-authors must be students, and the first author must be a member of the SAA. All co-authors receive the award.
Nomination/Submission Materials Required: The poster abstract must be accepted by SAA for the upcoming annual meeting. A student must be the primary author of the poster. The poster must be submitted to the Poster Award Committee Chair as an electronic entry.
Nomination/Submission Deadline: January 11, 2012
Other Special Requirements: None
Selection or Evaluation Criteria: Committee members evaluate papers anonymously, scoring them on a scale of 1-0 based on the following two weighted themes: presentation of information (70%) and the originality and significance of research (30%). Posters that receive high scores for presentation of information will have excellent graphics with large fonts and images, nice backgrounds, and good readability from at least one meter, precise text, and logical flow to the information. Posters that receive high scores for originality and significance of research should have focused problems, innovative solutions, rigorous methodologies, and contributions to the theme of the session.
Committee Deliberation Process (e.g. dates, venue): The committee meets electronically after the submission deadline has passed.
Nature of Award (e.g. monetary, medal, symposium): The award winner or winners receives acknowledgement from the SAA president. All co-authors will receive the award.
Student Awardees
2011 Alexander Smith and Danielle Raad
Alexander Smith and Danielle Raad have earned the 2011 SAA Student Poster Award for their poster submission entitled “The Metallurgy of Iron Mine Hill: The Use of Cumberlandite in Colonial Iron Artifacts from Rhode Island.” The poster presented original research on colonial iron artifacts from Rhode Island that utilized new technologies for examining the chemical signature of a particular local iron ore, cumberlandite. Iron artifacts from two archaeological sites, Green Farm and Potowomut, were examined and the relative frequencies of certain elements were compared allowing the authors to make arguments about the use of certain iron ore sources. This innovative research project will provide a platform for future studies and contributes to our understanding of colonial metallurgy.
2010 Metin I. Eren, Adam Durant & Christina Neudorf
2009 Susan Mentzer
2008 Brandi Lee MacDonald, R.G.V. Hancock, Alice Pidruczny, and Aubrey Cannon
2007 Bridget Zavala and Jose Luis Punzo Diaz
2006 Ruth Dickau
2005 Ethan Cochrane, Julie Field, and Diana Greenlee
2004 Stacy Lengyel
2003 Stacey Chambliss
2002 Laura Smith, James Jordan, David Johnson, Casey Haskell, and Herbert Maschner
2001 Jonathan Scholnick, Derek Wheeler, Fraser Neiman
2000 Diana M. Greenlee
1999 Diana Greenlee, Robert C. Dunnell, Terry Hunt, Michael Pfeffer
1998 Lisa Nagaoka
1997 Anastasia Steffen, Rita Moots Skinner, and Ann F. Ramenofsky
1996 Adam King
1995 Tim Hunt, Mark Madsen, and Carl Lipo
1994 Alanah J. Woody (Student), Dennis E. Lewarch and Laura S. Phillips (organizers, Outstanding Poster Symposium)
1993 Cynthia Herhahn
Professional Awardees
2007 Jeffrey A. Ferguson, Jelmer E. Eerkens, and Michael D. Glascock
2006 Robert Hard, Cynthis Muñez, and Anne Katzenberg
2005 James Feathers, Jack Johnson, Silvia Kembel
2004 Andrew Isaac, Mark Muldoon, Keri Brown, and Terry Brown (Overall winner), Sara Bon-Harper, Jennifer Aultman, Nick Bon-Harper, Derek Wheeler
2003 Diana M. Greenlee
2002 Manuel R. Palacios Fest and Jeffrey A. Homburg
2001 Jeffrey Homburg, Eric Brevik, Jeffrey Altschul, Antony Orme, Steven Shelley
2000 Fraser D. Neiman
1999 Neal H. Lopinot and Jack H. Ray
1998 Shannon P. McPherron and Harold L. Dibble
1997 Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, A. Russell Flegal, Stephen Glenn, and Homer Milford
1996 Clinton C. Hoffman, Stephen H. Lekson
1995 Brenda J. Baker and Maria A. Liston
1994 George R. Miller and James S. Oliver (Professional/non-student), Dennis E. Lewarch and Laura S. Phillips (organizers, Outstanding Poster Symposium)
1993 Virginia Butler and James Chatters