Reminder!!! The due date for the Jamie Chad Brandon Student Paper Prize is November 30th
The Academic and Professional Training Committee is pleased to announce that the Society of Historical Archaeology Student Paper Prize is now named after our late colleague Jamie Chad Brandon and is called: The Jamie Chad Brandon Student Paper Prize.
Jamie received his BA in Anthropology from the University of Memphis in 1995, his MA in Anthropology from the University of Arkansas in 1999, and his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. He served as the Research Station Archaeologist at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia from 2006 to 2014. From 2014 until his death, Jamie was an Associated Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and the UAF Research Station Archaeologist. Jamie’s research interests focused on the archaeology of the Ozarks and greater southeastern United States, specifically the material culture and identity, race construction, representation and power relations in the American South.
Jamie was a long-time member of SHA. From 2010-2018, he served as an Associate Editor for Historical Archaeology and as a member of the Journal and Co-Publications Editorial Advisory Committee. From 2006-2018 he served on the Academic and Professional Training Committee as the Continuing Education Coordinator (2006-2011); the APTC Committee Chair (2010-2014); a Student Paper Prize Subcommittee judge (2006-2018); and the Student Paper Prize Chair (2008-2014).
For a full listing of Jamie’s extensive teaching, research, outreach, and service, please see his personal website: https://fartheralong.wordpress.com/
The Jamie Chad Brandon Student Paper Prize will be awarded at the 53rd Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, to be held January 8‒11, 2020, in Boston, Massachusetts. The prize will be awarded to a student, or students, whose written version of a conference paper is judged superior in the areas of originality, research merit, clarity of presentation, professionalism, and of potential relevance to a considerable segment of the archaeological community. One prize will be awarded. The winning author(s) will receive a book prize consisting of titles donated by the many presses and organizations exhibiting in the SHA Conference Book Room and a letter of recognition from the SHA President. The winning author(s) will be encouraged to submit the paper to be reviewed for possible publication in Historical Archaeology. The results of the competition will be communicated to the entrants prior to the meeting, and the winner will be announced at the annual business meeting.
Criteria
- Entrants must be student members of the SHA prior to submission of papers and be registered for the 2020 annual meeting by November 1, 2019.
- The paper must be prepared according to current Historical Archaeology guidelines (see the SHA website for these details) and be submitted by November 30, 2019. Submissions must be made electronically (MS Word or PDF) to Alicia Caporaso, chair of the Student Paper Prize Subcommittee at JCBStudentPaperPrize@gmail.com. If entrants have a problem with an electronic submission, please contact Alicia Caporaso at the email address above
- The paper must be presented by one of the student authors at the annual meeting.
- There may be a maximum of three authors on the paper. All of the authors must be students and members of SHA at the time of submission. In the event of a winning co‐authored paper, the authors will split the available book prizes.
- Papers are to be limited to no more than 10 pages of double-spaced text using standard fonts and margins. The intent is that the length of the paper submitted must be in line with what can reasonably be presented in 15 minutes. Papers that are deemed by the committee to be impossible to deliver in a standard 15-minute format will be eliminated from the competition. Poster submissions are not eligible.
Any additional questions may be addressed to Alicia Caporaso via email (JCBStudentPaperPrize@gmail.com).