AIA President C. Brian Rose with 2010 AIA Gold Medal winner John Humphrey

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 17, 2010.

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

2010 Gold Medal Winner: John Humphrey

After receiving degrees from Cambridge University (B.A., First Class Honours with Distinction) and Bryn Mawr College (PhD), John Humphrey taught at the University of Michigan from 1975 to 1994, where he also served as Chair of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Archaeology and as Curator of the Kelsey Museum. While at Michigan, he directed excavations on Late Roman, Vandalic and Byzantine sites at Carthage, Tunisia, and launched a new project of excavation and survey at Leptiminus, Tunisia. He has edited and co-authored 11 volumes on the work at Carthage and Leptiminus. For his work in Tunisia he received the gold medal from the Tunisian Ministry of Culture. He is sole author of Roman circuses: arenas for chariot racing (Univ of California Press) and has excavated and published the circus at Lepcis Magna (Libya). In 1987 he founded the Journal of Roman Archaeology, specializing in synthetic articles and long reviews, and has edited it ever since, with the assistance of his wife Laura and daughter Leah. Twenty-two annual issues and seventy- nine supplementary volumes have appeared to date. With the Roman Society (London) he co-sponsors biennial conferences on Roman archaeology at different locations within the UK and USA.

Past Winners of the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement

2009	Henry Tutwiler Wright
2008	James Wiseman
2007	Larissa Bonfante
2006	Maria C. Shaw and Joseph W. Shaw
2005	Lionel Casson
2004	David B. Stronach
2003	Philip Betancourt
2002	Robert McCormick Adams
2001	Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
1999	Patty Jo Watson
1998	Anna Marguerite McCann
1997	Clemency Chase Coggins
1996	Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
1995	R. Ross Holloway
1994	Emeline Richardson
1993	Charles Kaufman Williams, II
1992	Evelyn Byrd Harrison
1991	Machteld J. Mellink
1990	John W. Hayes
1989	Virginia R. Grace
1988	Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway and John Desmond Clark
1987	Dorothy Burr Thompson
1986	George R. Bass
1985	Saul S. Weinberg and Gladys Davidson Weinberg
1984	Margaret Thompson
1983	James Bennet Pritchard
1982	Peter H. von Blanckenhagen
1981	William Andrew McDonald
1980	John Langdon Caskey
1979	Dows Dunham
1978	George M.A. Hanfmann
1977	Lucy Shoe Meritt
1976	Edith Porada
1975	Eugene Vanderpool
1974	Margarete Bieber
1973	Gordon R. Willey
1972	Homer A. Thompson
1971	Robert John Braidwood
1970	George E. Mylonas
1969	Oscar Theodore Broneer, Rhys Carpenter, and William B. Dinsmoor, Jr.
1966	Hetty Goldman
1965	Carl W. Blegen

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