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Fellows' Ernst Posner Award

 

Purpose and Criteria for Selection:

Established in 1982, this award recognizes an outstanding essay dealing with some facet of archival administration, history, theory, and/or methodology that was published during the preceding year in The American Archivist.

Eligibility:

Authors of the articles published in The American Archivist during the preceding year.

Sponsor and Funding:

Fellows of the Society of American Archivists sponsor this award honoring Ernst Posner, a former state archivist of the Prussian State Archives who emigrated to the United States in 1939 and joined the faculty of the American University. Posner was an SAA Fellow and President as well as author of American State Archives and Archives in the Ancient World.

Prize:

A certificate and a cash prize consisting of the income of the prize fund for that year.

First Awarded:

1983

Selection Committee:

The committee is composed of three Fellows of the Society of American Archivists and one of the co-chairs of the Awards Committee (ex officio). The SAA President-elect shall appoint one member of the subcommittee each year for a term of three years after having solicited nominations from the Fellows Steering Committee. The senior member of the subcommittee in years of service shall serve as its chair and present the award.

Application Deadline:

Not applicable. Please note that there are no nominations for this award because it is based on existing content in a specific volume of the American Archivist. The subcommittee shall make its selection no later than four weeks prior to the beginning of the SAA Annual Meeting.

Recipients:

1983:   Mary Jo Pugh

1984:   Frank G. Burke

1985:   F. Gerald Ham

1986:   Joanne Yates

1987:   Trudy Huskamp Peterson

1988:   Avra Michelson

1989:   Not awarded

1990:   The Working Group on Standards for Archival Description

1991:   James M. O'Toole

1992:   Frederick J. Stielow

1993:   Avra S. Michelson and Jeff Rothenberg

1994:   Not awarded

1995:   James M. O'Toole

1996:   Not awarded

1997:   The American Archivist (58:2) Special Issue on Case Studies of the Committee on Automated Records and Techniques

1998:   Tyler O. Walters

1999:   Roy Turnbaugh

2000:   Peter Wosh

2001:   Philip C. Bantin

2002:   Terry Cook

2003:   William G. Rosenberg

2004:   James M. O'Toole and George Bolotenko

2005:   Elena Danielson

2006:   Timothy L. Ericson

2007:   A*CENSUS Working Group for “Special Section on Archival Census and Educational Needs Survey in the United States” in American Archivist 69:2

2008:   Magia Ghetu Krause and Elizabeth Yakel

2009:   Geoffrey Yeo


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