Thursday, October 1, 2020, Deadline for Submitting Dissertations for Consideration for the Society for Historical Archaeology’s 2021 Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award

Posted On: 08/18/2020

Thursday, October 1, 2020, Deadline for Submitting Dissertations for Consideration for the Society for Historical Archaeology’s 2021 Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award

The 2021 Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award will be presented to a recent graduate whose dissertation is considered by the selection panel to be an outstanding contribution to historical archaeology. In January 2011, the SHA Board of Directors voted to change the name of the SHA Dissertation Prize to the Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award to honor Kathleen Kirk Gilmore, who passed away in 2010. She was a pioneer in the field of historical archaeology and a past president of the SHA.

The awardee will receive $1,000 at the time the award is presented during the January 2021 virtual annual meeting. Receipt of the award and the monetary prize are no longer dependent upon publication of the dissertation with the University Press of Florida. Awardees may take their dissertation to any press, including SHA.

If the winner chooses to work with SHA on publication of their dissertation, he or she will

  • receive the endorsement of the society and an associate editor to guide them through the publication process
  • receive assistance from SHA in finding the appropriate press and contract arrangements
  • be required to assign copyright of the manuscript and donate any royalties for their book to SHA
  • agree not to submit their dissertation for consideration elsewhere

If the choice is made not to publish through SHA, the winner is responsible for arranging publication on his or her own.

To be considered for the 2021 award, nominees must have officially received their Ph.D. degrees within three years prior to May 31, 2020. In the nomination letter, the nominator must provide the date the nominee officially received their Ph.D. (verification preferred, which could be a transcript or some other form of proof of date of receipt of Ph.D. degree). A digital version of the dissertation must be provided to Teresita Majewski, Gilmore Dissertation Award Coordinator, by October 1, 2020 (e-mail is preferred, but contact the coordinator for alternate methods to submit the digital version of the dissertation if necessary, particularly if the file size of the dissertation is over 10‒15 MB). Hard copies of the dissertation or copies on CD-ROM or DVD are no longer required. Very Important: The nominator or nominee must also provide the nominee’s contact information, including current mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number(s).

Nominations must be made by nonstudent SHA members and must consist of one nomination letter that makes a case for the dissertation. Self-nominations will not be accepted. NOMINEES AND NOMINATORS MUST BE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE TIME THE NOMINATION IS SUBMITTED. The nominator must provide verification of both his/her SHA membership status as well as that of the nominee.

Deadline for receipt of all nomination materials for the 2021 award is Thursday, October 1, 2020. The panel will begin their deliberations shortly thereafter.

The winner will be notified of the selection panel’s decision before Thanksgiving.

For more information or to submit nomination materials:
Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award
c/o Teresita Majewski, Coordinator, Gilmore Dissertation Award
PHONE: (520) 907-9677 (cell)
E-mail: tmajewski@sricrm.com