Meeting Date(s):
August 3, 2016 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: Room 213, Hilton Atlanta (255 Courtland Street NE, Atlanta)
SAA Awards Committee
A G E N D A
I. Welcome and Introductions – Sue Hamburger and Gerald Chaudron, Co-chairs
II. Schedule for Awards Presentations in Atlanta
A. Thursday, August 4, 9:00am–10:30am | Plenary 1 (Grand Ballroom)
- 5 SAA Fellows presented by 5 members of the Committee on the Selection of SAA Fellows
- CoSA Rising Star Award presented by CoSA
- Victoria Iron Walch Leadership Award presented by CoSA
- CoSA/NHPRC SHRAB Award presented by CoSA
- SAA J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award (to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ron Chernow) presented by President Dennis Meissner
- SAA Distinguished Service Award (to Georgia Archives Institute) presented by President Dennis Meissner
B. Friday, August 5, 5:00pm–6:00pm | Plenary 2 (Grand East)
- SAA Student Awards (8 recipients) presented by Awards Co-Chair Susan Hamburger:
- Theodore Calvin Pease Award (Rachel Walton)
- F. Gerald Ham & Elsie Ham Scholarship (Kate Madison)
- Mosaic Scholarship (Jimmy Zavala)
- Josephine Forman Scholarship (Desiree Alaniz)
- Donald Peterson Student Travel Award (Alessandro Meregaglia)
- Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award (Gailyn Bopp + Karen Hwang)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Award (Tristan Triponez)
- ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Fellows acknowledged by President Dennis Meissner
- 3 Council Exemplary Service Award (to William Maher + SAA Business Archives Section + SAA Oral History Section) presented by President Dennis Meissner
- 2 Council Resolutions (to Geof Huth and Michelle Light) presented by President Dennis Meissner
C. Friday, August 5, 6:00pm-7:00 pm | Awards Ceremony (Grand East)
Presented by Awards Co-Chairs Sue Hamburger and Gerald Chaudron:
- Philip M. Hamer–Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award (presented to South Asian American Digital Archive)
- Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award (presented to Wendy Duff and Jessica Haskell)
- C.F.W. Coker Award (no nominations)
- Waldo Gifford Leland Award (presented to Sonja Luehrmann)
- Preservation Publication Award (presented to Michele V. Cloonan)
- Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., Memorial Award (presented to Denise Gallo)
- Spotlight Award (presented to Marie Lascu)
- Diversity Award (presented to SAA LACCHA)
- Archival Innovator Award (presented to Foy Scalf)
- Emerging Leader Award (presented to Matt Gorzalski)
III. This awards cycle . . .
IV. Revisiting Subcommittee Tasks
- Publicize awards
- Actively seek nominations
- Coordinate evaluation of nominees
- Communicate with nominators and with committee co-chairs
- Prepare the citation about your award winner
- Incoming subcommittee chairs are responsible for contacting outgoing chairs to obtain copies of subcommittee work from previous year (citation, correspondence to recipient and nominees, and publicity and marketing materials)
- Your suggestions!
