Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement

2013 Winner Jeremy B. Rutter

The AIA Gold Medal Award Committee invites nominations for the award to be presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting. This award is made annually in recognition of a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to archaeology through his or her fieldwork, publications, and/or teaching. The recipient of the award will be presented with the medal and a citation documenting his or her outstanding achievements and a symposium will be held in his or her honor at the Annual Meeting at which the award is presented.

Criteria for Selection
Candidates for the award must be members of the Archaeological Institute of America. They may be nominated on the basis of (a) distinguished fieldwork, or (b) distinguished publication, or (c) distinguished teaching, or (d) any combination of these distinctions. The Committee itself may take the initiative in suggesting the names of likely candidates to persons who might be in a position to nominate them.

Due Date for Nomination
Completed nominations should be received by Institute Headquarters at the below address no later than November 18, 2013.

Materials to Be Submitted
Completed nominations should include: (a) a substantive letter of nomination setting out the grounds for the nomination and supported by three or more letters from scholars in North America or abroad discussing the nominee's qualifications for the award; (b) a CV or outline of the nominee's career and contributions to archaeology; (c) a list of the nominee's publications. All materials will be handled confidentially.

The Honorary Symposium
The Gold Medal Committee and the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting request that nomination packets include suggestions for potential organizers and/or participants for a symposium to be held at the Annual Meeting in honor of the successful nominee.

Please send all nomination materials to:

Gold Medal Committee
Attn: Awards Department
Archaeological Institute of America
656 Beacon Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215-2006
(617) 353-9361
FAX: (617) 353-6550
E-mail: awards@aia.bu.edu

2013 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement: Jeremy B. Rutter

Jeremy Rutter received his B.A. in Classics from Haverford College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. After a year’s tenure of the AIA’s Olivia James Travelling Fellowship (1974-75) and one-year as  visiting Assistant Professor in Classics at UCLA (1975-76), he moved with his family to New Hampshire to teach at Dartmouth College, where he served as an Assistant Professor (1976-81), Associate Professor (1981-87), and Professor (1987-2012), chairing the Department of Classics (1992-98, 2003-06) and holding the Sherman Fairchild Professorship in the Humanities (2001-10). His principal field of expertise is Aegean prehistory, especially the ceramics of all phases of the mainland Greek Bronze Age and of the Late Bronze Age on Crete. Having participated in excavations at the sites of Ayios Stephanos (Laconia), Corinth, Tsoungiza (Corinthia), Kommos (Crete), Mitrou (Locris), and Aigeira (Achaïa), he has authored three books, co-edited one, and published more than 60 articles and as well as more than 50 reviews since 1967.

Past Winners of the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement

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