May2014

79TH ANNUAL MEETING2014 AWARDSSAA award recipients are selected by individual committees of SAA members— one for each award. The Board of Directors wishes to thank the awardcommittees for their hard work and excellent selections, and to encourage any members who have an interest in a particular awardto volunteer to serve on a future committee.PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITIONAWARDDEBORAH L. NICHOLSAs Chair of the SAA Publications Committee,Deborah L. Nichols has brought asteady hand and open mind to keepingSAA abreast of the ever-changing world ofacademic and scholarly publishing. For 80years, SAA has been a leader in the publication of researchresults and theoretical and methodological advances in Americanarchaeology. SAA now publishes three journals and a magazine,maintains its own press, and supports the posting of currentresearch online. The Publications Committee is not onlycharged with maintaining these efforts but also with chartingSAA’s course through the opportunities and challenges presentedby digital publishing and the open access movement. Debhas taken on these challenges in a thoughtful and inclusivemanner, ensuring that all voices on these issues are heard, whilebeing mindful of potential repercussions of publications-relatedchanges on SAA finances and membership.PRESIDENTIALRECOGNITIONAWARDCHRISTOPHER A.POOL andGABRIELAURUÑUELA YLADRÓN DEGUEVARATheir decision to remain editors of the journal for an additionalyear during the process of selecting their successors allowed thejournal to continue publication on time and to maintain thehighest scholarly standards. Gabriela worked tirelessly onensuring the Latin American co-editor team had equitable supportin copyediting Spanish language articles. In addition to hiswork on Latin American Antiquity, Chris worked with the SAAPublications Committee and other journal editors to develop theguidelines for supplemental materials and contributed significantlyto discussions on the future of SAA publications.GENE STUART AWARDANN GIBBONSAnn Gibbons, an award-winning sciencewriter and correspondent for Science magazine,has earned the 2014 Gene S. StuartAward for her ethically responsible andentertaining writing about the fascinatingresearch of paleopathology. The Thousand-Year Graveyard presents an engaging storythat profiles a team of archaeologists studying 1,000 years ofhealth and disease in a graveyard in Tuscany, as they excavateand study skeletons in order to understand what made peoplesick and how they died, from the medieval period to the 20thcentury. Their work on ancient disease may help medicalresearchers today, for example in understanding cholera, andthe story paints a rich picture of how historical archaeology isdone. Ann Gibbons has delivered to the public a well-balancedarticle detailing the pursuit of the past in a way that all archaeologistscan respect.As co-editors of Latin American Antiquity, Christopher A. Pooland Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara exhibited remarkableskill and dedication to the timely dissemination of qualityresearch and scholarship on the archaeology of Latin America.May 2014 • The SAA Archaeological Record51