Fall 2009 Alasdair Brooks, DPhil, Newsletter Editor, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Index President’s Corner President’s Corner .......................................1 Lu Ann De Cunzo Images of the Past .........................................3 SHA Committee News ...............................4 The minutes of the June SHA Board meeting Constitution and Bylaws Changes: These Mission Statement & Strategic Priorities 4 will be published in the next newsletter; core documents were last amended APT Student Subcommittee ..................4 my column in this issue of the Newsletter in 2003, at which time the Secretary- 2010 Conference Preliminary Program .....6 presents some of the highlights. Treasurer was split into two positions, 2010 Conference Registration Form .......20 and a 2-year presidency established. A 2010 Corporate Sponsor Form ................23 Strategic Plan: change to the Mission Statement, Article 2010 Silent Auction Donations ...............25 I am most pleased to report that the Board II of the SHA Constitution, requires 2010 Student Volunteer Form .................26 approved a revised Mission Statement and membership approval. Other changes may Current Research ........................................27 a Strategic Workplan of long-term (5-year), be in order to align with strategic planning Africa ........................................................28 mid-term (2-year), and short-term (1-year) directions, electronic means of membership Australasia and Antarctica ....................28 priorities for SHA (see Strategic Plan article, communication, expanding publications Continental Europe.................................28 p. 4). The next steps in implementing the program, etc. Director Don Weir has agreed Mexico, Central and South America ...29 Workplan include: to chair a Bylaws Committee to review Underwater (Worldwide) ....................30 these documents and recommend specific USA—Mid-Atlantic ...............................36 Committees: At the January 2009 planning changes for Board consideration in January USA—Northeast ....................................36 meetings, committees outlined their project 2010. The proposed revised Mission USA—Pacific West ..................................37 initiatives supporting the draft priorities. Statement and any other changes accepted USA—Southeast .....................................39 This fall, they are updating project by the Board will go to the membership for National Register of Historic Places .........41 statements and schedules for the next two approval in the 2010 voting cycle. Forum Archaeologie Post-Mediaevalis ...42 years. The Board will review and approve Thank you to everyone—members Online Journal Historische Archäologie ...43 the final Workplan at the next Board responding to the Needs Assessment, meeting on Amelia Island. committee members and especially committee chairs, and the officers and Mission: The Needs Assessment offered Board members—who have participated in overwhelming evidence that our members strategic planning over the past two years. Important Fall Newsletter Note envision the SHA’s purposes more The plan encapsulates a meaningful focus expansively than represented in our Mission and direction for the Society for the next Statement (<http://www.sha.org/about/ several years, will facilitate intercommittee constitution.cfm>). In particular, members and interorganizational collaborations, and The Society for Historical Archaeology emphasized SHA’s role in promoting provide transparency and accountability Guide to Higher Education in Histori- archaeological resource protection through to our members. Please contact Executive cal and Underwater Archaeology has education and public engagement, and Director Karen Hutchison or me if you moved online. See Page 5 for details. the contemporary international, post-U.S.- have any questions or comments about the centric nature of historical archaeology. The Workplan. proposed Mission Statement incorporates these and other issues. Publications news: Website Editor Kelly Dixon has decided to resign as SHA’s Website Editor in order to devote her considerable energies to her Amelia Island 2010 growing family and other professional preliminary program in this issue! obligations. Over the past several years, she has Continued on Page 2 Volume 42: Number 3 Fall 2009 Page 1 President’s Corner, Cont’d from Page 1 Committee. She will step down as Website approved a new Advertising Policy for Editor as soon as her replacement is SHA that provides for advertising in directed a team of volunteers and appointed and trained. President-Elect Bill Historical Archaeology, the SHA Newsletter, professionals at the University of Montana Lees has agreed to chair the Website Search and at <www.sha.org>. I appreciate the in transforming our website, bringing Committee, which is at work as I write! efforts of editors Joe Joseph, Annalies us into the 21st century. Her vision After several years of efforts spearheaded Corbin, Kelly Dixon, and Alasdair Brooks, and commitment to SHA and our most by Mark Warner, LouAnn Wurst, and Development Committee Chair John public face, <www.sha.org>, have been Charlie Ewen, working with past Editor Chenoweth, and SHA’s Advertising extraordinary, especially as she and her team Rebecca Allen and current Editor Joe Coordinator James Flexner in developing have accommodated the ever-increasing Joseph, J-STOR (<www.jstor.org>) has this policy. Increased advertising income demands that our online communications invited SHA to participate in its online will supplement publications sales and culture have placed on them. SHA digital archive, offering to archive and host membership dues in supporting priority Publications and Research Resources past issues of Historical Archaeology. We are initiatives of the Strategic Plan. For more online, the Current Projects page, Exploring especially pleased with the visibility and information, contact James at <Advert@ Historical Archaeology, Unlocking the Past, access to our scholarship that J-STOR will sha.org>. and the new Development pages are among provide to educational institutions around Alasdair Brooks and Kelly Dixon continue her many accomplishments. I accept her the world. SHA plans to continue posting to recraft the relationship between resignation with gratitude for all she has the journal on <www.sha.org> as well. the SHA Newsletter and the website as accomplished, and with thanks for her Watch for more news on this initiative from communications tools for SHA. In this promise to remain an active member of the Joe soon. Newsletter, they announce that the Guide Website and Newsletter Editorial Advisory At the Mid-Year Meeting, the Board to Higher Education in Historical and Underwater Archaeology is moving to an entirely online format at <www.sha.org>, where it will reach the target audience most Published Quarterly effectively and allow Alasdair to continue Subscription Rate: Individual: Regular ($125), Student ($70), Adjunct ($40), Friend ($175), Developer ($250), Benefactor ($400), Life ($3,600). expanding news reports in the SHA Organizational: Institution ($200). All U.S. funds. Newsletter from venues around the world. Newsletter Editor: Alasdair Brooks, DPhil Financial news: In other financial news, I am very pleased Copy Editor: Daniel McNaughton. to report that the Board approved a surplus Special News Editors: USA-Pacific West: Anmarie Medin budget for 2010, thanks in great part to the Current Publications: Charles Ewen USA-Southeast: Gifford Waters professional contributions to conference Images of the Past: Benjamin C. Pykles USA-Southwest: Michael R. Polk management provided by the Florida Public Archaeology Network and other members Current Research Editors: Editorial Address: The Society for His- of the 2010 conference team. Thank you Africa: Kenneth Kelly torical Archaeology Newsletter, c/o Dr. also to the many members who have made Asia: Edward Gonzalez-Tennant Alasdair Brooks, School of Archaeol- generous donations to the conference. It’s Australasia: Susan Piddock ogy and Ancient History, University of not too late to join them! Contact Brenda Canada-Atlantic: Robert Ferguson Leicester, University Road, Leicester Swann, < [email protected]>, or Mike Canada-Ontario: Jon Jouppien LE1 7RH, United Kingdom Arbuthnot, <[email protected]>, Canada-Prairie: Jennifer Hamilton conference development coordinators. Canada-Québec: Allison Bain <[email protected]> Canada-Western: Rod J. Heitzmann Conference news: Caribbean/Bermuda: Business Address: 9707 Key West Av- I am sure that you will find the enclosed Frederick H. Smith enue, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20850. Preliminary Program for the 2010 Amelia Continental Europe: Natascha Mehler Phone 301.990.2454; Fax 301.990.9771; Island Conference on Historical and Great Britain & Ireland: Email <[email protected]> (New subscrip- Underwater Archaeology most impressive. 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