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Awards
The Southeastern Archaeological Conference gives out a number of awards each year, both monetary and ceremonial. We encourage our members to apply for these awards to further archaeological research and outreach across the Southeastern United States and to nominate their fellow members for the ceremonial recognition awards. We have great archeologists in SEAC and we want to celebrate them and move their research forward.
Ceremonial Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a senior scholar who has made significant and sustained contributions to southeastern archaeology and participated in the Southeastern Archaeological Conference during her or his career.
SEAC Rising Scholar Award
The SEAC Rising Scholar Award is given to a distinguished younger scholar for excellence in Southeastern Archaeology or associated studies.
Judith G. Knight Student Paper Competition
The Judith G. Knight SEAC Student Paper Competition is one of the highlights of the annual meeting. The value of this award lies first and foremost in the recognition that the winner and the runner-up receive from peers and colleagues. These student winners are among our best and brightest and it is always a pleasure to acknowledge their contributions. However, in the words of T.R. Kidder, one cannot eat prestige! Thus, the winner receives a substantial collection of new and recent books on Southeastern Archaeology awarded at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. The runner-up receives a Lifetime membership in SEAC and all back issues of the journal Southeastern Archaeology.
Patty Jo Watson Award
The Patty Jo Watson Award is given for the best article or book chapter on Southeastern Archaeology.
CRM Stewardship Award
The SEAC Cultural Resource Management and Preservation Stewardship Award is given to a distinguished member of a public, private, or nonprofit agency, organization, or corporation in recognition of outstanding contributions to cultural resource management and historic preservation in the Southeastern United States.
Monetary Awards
SEAC Public Outreach Grant
The SEAC Public Outreach grant supports projects that promote public awareness of archaeology in the Southeast through creative and innovative educational and outreach activities. The review committee prioritizes outreach activities that bring archaeology to community stakeholders and those individuals who have been historically marginalized in the creation of archaeological knowledge. The grant is open to anyone in or near the traditional boundaries of the southeastern culture area, and all proposals must have a tie to the southeastern states. Examples of public projects include teacher workshops, exhibits, Archaeology Week/Month activities, archaeology fairs, field trips, or other public-oriented projects.
Charles Hudson Award
The Charles Hudson Award is intended to recognize and support students who carry out high-quality research on the social history of the Southeastern United States using ethnohistory, archaeology, history, linguistics, or oral traditions. Preference is given to proposals that draw on more than one of these methods or that link the people known only through archaeology to more recent Indigenous people. Quality of research in this specified area (including significance, clarity of research design, and feasibility) is the sole criterion for judging proposals. The Award is given in support of research and scholarly development and may be used for research expenses, lab materials, travel, books, tuition, fees, and other scholarly needs as justified in the application materials.
Native Affairs Speaker Fund
The Southeastern Archaeological Conference Native American Affairs Liaison Committee (NAALC) has established a Native Affairs Speakers Fund (NASF) in order to facilitate communication, develop and strengthen relationships, and disseminate information about archaeological research and tribal perspectives and knowledge which is of mutual benefit to the SEAC and to American Indian tribes. The function of the Native Affairs Speakers Fund is to provide travel expenses for either SEAC members to travel to native communities or for tribal representatives to travel to universities, agencies, gatherings, or other designated places to present information and engage in dialogue about issues in the past, present, and future of archaeological research and American Indian heritage preservation.