Welcome to the web page for SEAC student members. The resources gathered here are designed to help students develop skills that will serve them well as practicing archaeologists. Please check back here periodically for announcements. Thanks to SEAC for its support of student members.
The Student Affairs Committee maintains a student listserv to keep SEAC student members aware of the latest news, important deadlines, new grants, etc. To be added to the listserv, please contact David Cranford (cranford@unc.edu).
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
University of Kentucky 2008 Summer Field School - Carter Robinson Mound. See our Student Projects and Fieldwork page for information.
New Leadership in the Student Affairs Committee! New members include Meg Kassabaum (Chair-elect), Lucinda Langston, and Lynn Funkhouser. A special thanks to the out going members, Theresa McReynolds, Casey Barrier, and Claire Nanfro who have spent the last two years providing valuable service to the committee and whose leadership have seen the addition of several successful student programs at our annual meetings.
Don't forget to pay your student membership dues for 2008. A student membership is only $15! For more information about SEAC Membership click here or contact Victor Thompson.
We've Moved! The Student Affairs page has now moved to a new permanent location with the main SEAC servers so make sure to change your bookmarks.
Congratulations to Glenn Strickland (University of Mississippi) who won the 2007 Student Paper Competition! This year's second place winner was Clete Rooney (University of Florida). Thank you to all those who submitted their papers to the Student Paper Competition this year and thank you to the Student Paper Review Committee.
WORKSHOPS |
Strategies for Giving Conference Papers and Posters
SEAC 2000 | Vin Steponaitis, Gayle Fritz, Adam King
Writing Grant and Fellowship Proposals
SEAC 2001 | Amber VanDerwarker, Greg Wilson, Mark Rees, Patrick Livingood, Dawn
Ramsey, Ken Sassaman, Vin Steponaitis
The Ins and Outs of
Publication
SEAC 2005 | Judith Knight, Lynne Sullivan, David Anderson
Developing and Delivering Effective Presentations
SEAC 2006 | Charles Cobb, Tanya Peres, Christopher Rodning, Victor Thompson, and Gregory Wilson
STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION |
2007 SEAC Student Paper Competition Announcement . Remember, you can’t win if you don’t enter!
Congratulations to the 2007 Winners!!!
History of the SEAC Student Paper Competition
SEAC established the Competition in the fall of 1991, though on his own initiative in the 1970s Steve Williams had made awards for outstanding student papers. The first competition took place at the next Annual Meeting, in 1992. From its inception, the Book Prize has consisted of display copies of books offered for sale at the Annual Meeting. All volumes in the Prize are donated by their publishers or vendors, who are recognized by having their names read at the annual Business Meeting and published in the Spring issue of the SEAC Newsletter. That Newsletter also publishes the names of the judging panel, typically 3-4 archaeologists with a variety of analytical and chronological interests. The Newsletter also, of course, publishes the name of the Competition winner, their paper’s title, and the school they attend. Each year the list of entrants in competition is published in the Bulletin (the volume containing the program and abstracts of that year’s meeting).
As always, the Student Affairs Committee sincerely thanks all the individuals and organizations who donate items for the Student Paper Competition; we are grateful for their continuing support.
Past Winners of the Competition
Year |
Author |
Title |
School |
No. of Books |
1992 |
Amy Lambeck Young |
An Analysis of Nails from the Gibbs House Site |
|
73 |
1993 |
Patrick Jones |
Lake of the Taensa: A Report on a Recent Survey of
|
|
132 |
1994 |
Mary Beth Trubitt |
The Formation of House Floor and Fill Assemblages in
the Mississippian American Bottom,
|
Northwestern Univ. |
150 |
1995 |
Sissel Schroeder |
Ancient Landscapes and Sociopolitical Change in the
Southern American Bottom,
|
Pennsylvania State Univ. |
167 |
1996 |
Jason McBrayer |
Elite Polygyny in Southeastern Chiefdoms |
|
183 |
1997 |
Amber VanDerwarker |
Feasting and the Formulation of Food Use at the Toqua Site |
|
227 |
1998 |
Keith Little |
The Emergence of Etowah: A Prehistoric Polity which
Occupied Portions of the Valley and Ridge and Piedmont in Northwest Georgia
and
|
|
224 |
1999 |
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman |
Vertebrate Subsistence in the Mississippian-Historic Period Transition |
|
>300 |
2000 |
Greg Wilson |
Small Celt, Big Celt, Old Celt, New Celt: The
Moundville Greenstone Industry in the Black
|
|
275 |
2001 |
Ashley Dumas |
Plotting the Past: A Study in Archaeological Method at
the Original
|
|
225 + a TaMara Beane pot |
2002 |
Jennifer Myer |
Among the fields: Mississippian settlement patterns in
the
|
|
265 + a TaMara Beane pot |
2003 |
John Marcoux |
The Materialization of Status and Social Structure at
the Kogers
|
|
|
2004 |
Victor Thompson |
The Formation
and Function of Shell Rings: A Case Study from
|
|
282 + 13 craft items + 1 day of geophys survey |
| 2005 | Lance Greene | Race, Class, and Material Culture in Antebellum
|
Univ.
of
|
237 + 2 craft items |
| 2006 | Mary Beth Fitts (1st Place) |
People of the River, People of the Trail: Mapping Catawba Coalesence | Univ. of North Carolina | 281 + 5 craft items + NPS Training workshop |
| 2006 | Adam Schieffer (2nd Place) |
What's Cookin'? European Influence on Cherokee Subsistence at Coweeta Creek during the Qualla Phase (A.D. 1300-1908) | University of South Florida | Lifetime membership in SEAC and back issues of Southeastern Archaeology |
2007 |
Glenn Strickland (1st Place) |
The Archaeological Unifying Constant: Interpretations of a Late Mississippian Mound Group through Digital Spatial Modeling |
University of Mississippi
|
315 + 8 craft items + 1 original print + cards and stationary |
| 2007 | Clete Rooney |
Beyond Kingsley: Reconcepualizing the Archaeology and Anthropology of Fort George Island, Florida | University of Florida | Lifetime membership in SEAC and back issues of Southeastern Archaeology
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MEETINGS |
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- 2007 Knoxville, TN
- 2006 Little Rock, AR
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LINKS |
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
Southeast Archeological Center
Southeastern
Archaeological Conference
OFFICERS |
•2008-2009 | David Cranford (SEAC Student Committee Chair-Webmaster), Meg Kassabaum (Committee Chair Elect), Lucinda Langston, Lynn Funkhouser, Victor Thompson (SEAC Executive Committee Liaison)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
These web pages were originally created in 2001 by SEAC student members, and they will be revised and updated by other members of the SEAC Committee for Student Affairs. Thanks to Ken Sassaman, Adam King, Paul Welch, Richard Jefferies, Richard Yarnell, Keith Stephenson, and the executive committee for their guidance and for their support of the SEAC Committee for Student Affairs.
webmaster | 1/16/08