Outstanding Public Service Award

2013 Public Service winner David Packard accepts his award.

Award Criteria
The Outstanding Public Service Award recognizes exceptional contributions that promote public understanding of, interest in, and support for archaeology and the preservation of the archaeological record.

Eligibility
Individuals, organizations, institutions, or corporations may be nominated to receive the Public Service Award. Individuals need not be members of the AIA. At the discretion of the reviewing subcommittee, the award may or may not be presented annually.

Nomination
Nominations may be made by any AIA member or AIA committee. They should include a detailed statement of the candidate's contributions meriting recognition in a form suitable for use in a citation.

Selection
A subcommittee of the Professional Responsibilities Committee will review nominations and make a recommendation to the full Committee. The PRC will submit its decision for approval by the Governing Board at its May meeting.

Due Date for Nomination
Completed nominations for the 2014 prize should be received by Institute Headquarters at the below address no later than April 1, 2013, for the award to be presented at the following Annual Meeting.

Please send all nomination materials to:

Outstanding Public Service Award
Atten: Awards Department
Archaeological Institute of America
656 Beacon Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215-2006
Phone: (617) 353-9361
Email: awards@aia.bu.edu

2013 Outstanding Public Service Award: David W. Packard

David Packard was recognized for his work as president at The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), a non-profit foundation dedicated to archaeology, music, film preservation, historic conservation, and early education. It is especially noted for its generous funding of ancient Mediterranean research, excavation, rescue and preservation (Athenian Agora, Butrint, Herculaneum, Zeugma,) support of the creation of museum facilities (Butrint site in southern Albania), online research tools, digital archaeology projects, aerial photographic archive for archaeology in the Middle East, and more. Zeugma 2000, an archaeological rescue project dedicated to documenting the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates River was supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, the South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and the PHI organized an ambitious international emergency rescue project at Zeugma during the summer of 2000. As of 2012, PHI will have been active for 25 years, during which it has worked hard to bring substantial long-term resources to bear on archaeological subjects and sites of major public import. Image: Work at Zeugma 2000, the archaeological rescue project dedicated to documenting the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates River, supported by The Packard Humanities Institute.

Past Winners of the Outstanding Public Service Award

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