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Society of American Archivists-Hamer-Kegan Award

  • 1.  Society of American Archivists-Hamer-Kegan Award

    Posted 02-12-2019 02:14 PM

    Society of American Archivists

    Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

    Call for nominations: Hamer Kegan Award

    On behalf of the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Committee, I invite you to submit nominations for the 2019 award. Please see the following announcement for more information.

    This Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents (which can be a specific archival collection or thematic aggregation) through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Work that has impact on a local, regional, national, and/or international level is welcomed.


    Recent winners include:


    Eligibility:

    Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, organizations. This award is open to nominees within and outside of the United States, and is not limited to SAA members.


    Prize:

    A certificate and a cash prize of $500.


    Application Deadline:

    All nominations shall be submitted to SAA by February 28 of each year.


    For more information on this award, including the nomination form, please go to http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer.  

    For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to https://www2.archivists.org/aboutsaa/awardsandscholarships.

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    Phillip Stone
    stonerp@wofford.edu
    Archivist
    Sandor Teszler Library & Gallery-Wofford College
    Spartanburg SC
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