Announcements

	2010 SEAC Student Paper Competition: Students are encouraged to enter their SEAC paper in the 2010 Student Paper Competition. The deadline for submitting papers to the competition is September 24, 2010. The purpose of the competition and award is to foster student participation in the program of the Annual Meetings of SEAC. There will be a First Place Prize of new and recent books on Southeastern Archaeology to be awarded at the Annual Meeting. There will also be a Second Place Prize consisting of Lifetime membership in SEAC and all back issues of the journal Southeastern Archaeology. The Student Paper Competition Committee also encourages students submitting a paper to read How to Win the SEAC Student Paper Competition by Paul Welch, former Chair of the Student Paper Competition Committee. Read the full announcement here.
	Call for Nominations: President Anderson has appointed the SEAC Nominations Committee for 2010. The committee members will identify candidates for three positions, that of President-elect (a two year term, followed by a two year term as President), Executive Officer II (a two year term), and Editor-elect (a one year term, followed by a three year term as Editor). Nominations for each of these positions are sought. Names of nominees can be sent to any one of the committee members by June 30, 2010. Persons serving in all three of these positions are voting members of the SEAC Executive Committee, which convenes annually at the SEAC annual meeting and, if called, at a spring mid-year meeting, typically held at the SAA Meeting. The Nominations Committee is as follows: Kenneth E. Sassaman, Chair University of Florida 1112 Turlington Hall P.O. Box 117305 Gainesville, FL 32611-7305 (352) 392-6772; sassaman@ufl.edu Dr. Ashley A. Dumas University of West Alabama Station 45 Livingston, AL 35470 (205)652-3830; adumas@uwa.edu Dr. John E. Kelly Washington University Campus Box 1114 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Mo 63130 (314)-935-4609; jkelly@artsci.wustl.edu
	Back issues of the SEAC Newsletter are now available on the Publications page.
	Next SEAC Meeting: SEAC 2010, 67th Annual Meeting, October 27-30, 2010 at the Lexington Downtown Hotel and Conference Center, Lexington, Kentucky. Click here for more information.
	Milanich chosen as American Academy fellow Jerald T. Milanich, contributing editor at Archaeology magazine and curator emeritus in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History was named a fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences today. Milanich is among 229 new fellows who join one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent policy research. The scholars, scientists, jurists, writers, artists, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders represent universities, museums, national laboratories, private research institutes, businesses, and foundations. Milanich's areas of research interest include the archaeology of pre-Columbian peoples in the Southeastern United States and the impact of Spanish colonization on the Native American of that region. Recent research has focused on the use of journalism as historical record during the last three decades of the nineteenth century (in Florida and the American West) and on the Seminole Indians of Florida in the early twentieth century. He is a previous recipient of grants and scholarships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Milanich received his bachelor's degree and a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Florida. He later held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Other 2010 inductees include actors John Lithgow, Steve Martin, and Denzel Washington; movie director Francis Ford Coppola; Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams; journalist Christiane Amanpour; David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; James Leach, National Endowment for the Humanities Chair; and G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Since its founding by John Adams, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected leading "thinkers and doers" from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 9, at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. http://www.amacad.org/news/new2010.aspx
	Congratulations to the winners of this year’s officer elections: Sarah Sherwood (Executive Officer I), Penelope Drooker (Secretary) and Treasurer-Elect (Karen Smith).
	Call for Nominations: The Southeastern Archaeological Conference Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southeastern Archaeology Please click here for information on nominating a colleague or mentor for the SEAC Lifetime Achievement Award.
	Book Reviewers Need: SEAC is looking for people to review recent publications in history and archaeology. For a list of books click here. For additional information contact Renee Walker.
	The current issue of the SEAC Newsletter has been sent to members. If you would like a copy, please renew your membership and send a current mailing addressto the SEAC Treasurer.
	Fort Frederica National Monument Wins 2010 Public Outreach Grant for Community Archaeology Festival The 2010 SEAC Public Outreach Grant was awarded to Fort Frederica National Monument, St. Simons Island, Georgia, for their project “Digging History” at FortFrederica: Community Archaeology Festival. Fort Frederica National Monument has already been serving over 1,000 4th-grade students in an award-winning archeology education program in partnership with the Glynn County School System and Board of Education. The SEAC Public Outreach Grant will help fund an expansion of this program into a community archaeology festival to be held in May to coincide with Georgia Archaeology Awareness Month. In addition to the one-day festival, the Fort will reach out to under-served audiences by welcoming local after-school programs on the afternoon preceding the festival. The Fort hopes to make this pilot project into an annual event. The festival will enable park visitors to interact with the past by engaging in hands-on archaeology discovery stations to learn about colonial life. The festival will feature interactive archaeology games and activities, displays, an artifact identification booth, and presentations. The festival will also feature the Society for Georgia’s new Archaeobus. The Archaeobus is a restored bookmobile that travels around the state of Georgia to educate students and community groups about the science of archaeology. The SEAC grant will help pay for supplies and materials to construct the interactive archaeology games and activities, as well as to provide stipends for archaeologists and educators assisting with the event. After the event, the games and activities will be further used for other park programs and outreach projects. For additional information on this and past grant winners, click here: (http://www.southeasternarchaeology.org/grant/grantpast.html)
	*Exploring Joara Project:* Led by David Moore (Warren Wilson College), Rob Beck (University of Michigan), and Chris Rodning (Tulane University), the Exploring Joara Project is planning another season of archaeological fieldwork in the upper Catawba Valley of western North Carolina. The Berry site is the location of the Native American town of Joara, and the location of Fort San Juan. The fort was established by Captain Juan Pardo in 1567, as Pardo’s major outpost along the northern border of the Spanish colonial province of La Florida. Fort San Juan and five other forts established by the Juan Pardo expeditions were abandoned in 1568. Our long-term archaeological project focuses on the nature of early encounters and interactions between Native American towns and Spanish expeditions in the upper Catawba Valley and surrounding areas of western North Carolina, and the effects of early contact on native societies in this region at the northern edge of the Southeast. Field school excavations at the Berry site will take place from June 1 through June 25, 2010. Our annual Field Day at the Berry site will take place from 10:00AM until 2:00PM on Saturday, June 26, 2010. The public are invited to attend this free event, which includes site tours, artifact displays, and exhibits by Native American potters and primitive technology. Other planned activities for the summer of 2010 include: Excavations of a Native American house at a village site known as Catawba Meadows, eight miles south of the Berry site, led by Merritt Sanders, a doctoral student at Tulane University. The beginning of a regional survey in one area of the upper Yadkin Valley—the watershed located just north of the upper Catawba Valley—by Travis Williams, an M.A. student at the University of Oklahoma. Weeklong teacher workshops in field archaeology at the Berry site, led by Theresa McReynolds, Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina, during June and July. To learn more about our research activities and related public outreach and education programs, visit the web site of the Exploring Joara Foundation: http://www.joarafoundation.org/.
	A new Web site for SEAC student members has recently been developed. The SEAC Student Web presents a collection of practical resources for the student archaeologist, such as tips on grant-writing and presenting papers at conferences. The link is accessible from the Archaeology Web Sites for the Southeastern U.S. page on the main SEAC Web site, or can be reached directly from http://www.seacstudentweb.org/.