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Deadline: October 1, 2025
The AIA’s Outreach and Education Committee invites nominations for the inaugural Archaeological Institute of America Public Engagement Award. This award recognizes the broad and important range of outreach conducted by AIA members. For the purposes of this recognition, public engagement is defined as outreach and partnerships (virtual and in person) that benefit a range of non-specialist audiences including K-12 classrooms, senior centers, community organizations, museum visitors, library patrons, and other diverse groups of learners.
Eligibility and Self-Nomination Process
All current professional, K-12 educator, and Student AIA members are eligible to self-nominate for this recognition for public engagement conducted during the period from September 2024 to August 2025 via this form. Self-nominations will close on October 1, 2025.
To qualify for this award, self-nominees must have dedicated a minimum of 12 hours to their public engagement work and/or must have participated in three separate public engagements. For an engagement to qualify toward this recognition, it must not be a required part of the AIA member’s professional duties (e.g. if you work professionally as a K-12 educator, your regular class sessions would not count toward this recognition; if you work regularly as a museum educator, the work you do as part of your everyday job would not count toward this recognition).
Notifications Procedure
Nominations will be reviewed by the Outreach and Education Committee; awardees will be notified in November 2025 and recognized at the Annual Meeting in January 2026.
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