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Byron Cummings Award


The Byron Cummings Award is given in honor of Byron Cummings, the principal professional founder of the Archaeological and Historical Society, the first head of the University of Arizona’s Department of Archaeology, later Anthropology and the first Director of the Arizona State Museum. The award may be given for outstanding research and contributions to knowledge in anthropology, history, or a related field of study or research pertaining to the southwestern United States or northwest Mexico.

Dean Byron Cummings

Recipients of the Byron Cummings Award

1987 – Emil W. Haury, Julian D. Hayden, Clara Lee Tanner, Watson Smith

1988 – Florence H. Ellis

1989 – Alden C. Hayes, James A. Lancaster

1990 – James E. Officer, H. Marie Wormington

1991 – Charles C. DiPeso, Joe Ben Wheat, Elizabeth A. Morris

1992 – Gregory Franzwa

1993 – Raymond H. Thompson, Vorsila L. Bohrer

1994 – David A. Breternitz, Nathalie F.S. Woodbury, Richard B. Woodbury

1995 – Katharine Bartlett, Edward B. Danson, Bertha P. Dutton, Albert H. Schroeder

1996 – Marjorie Lambert, Florence Lister, Robert Lister

1997 – David M. Brugge, Carroll L. Riley

1998 – Catherine S. Fowler, Don D. Fowler

1999 – Charles H. Lange

2000 – C. Vance Haynes

2001 – William D. Lipe

2002 – Beatriz Braniff Cornejo

2003 – Linda S. Cordell, R. Gwinn Vivian

2004 – Jeffrey S. Dean, W. James Judge

2005 – Thomas C. Windes

2006 – Emory Sekaquaptewa, Polly Schaafsma

2007 – Bryant Bannister, David R. Wilcox

2008 – Margaret M. Lyneis, William J. Robinson

2009 – Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish

2010 – David E. Doyel, J. Jefferson Reid

2011 – David A. Gregory, John L. Kessell

2012 – Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint

2013 – Bernard L. Fontana, Jane H. Kelley

2014 – Paul E. Minnis, Michael E. Whalen, Patricia A. Gilman

2015 – Jim Ayres, Alan Ferg

2016 – Karen R. Adams, Thomas E. Sheridan

2017 – Patricia L Crown, Marc Simmons

2018 – Richard I. Ford, Malcolm Ebright

2019 – Jerry B. Howard, David T. Kirkpatrick

2020 – Stephen H. Lekson, John D. Speth

2021 – Katherine Morrissey, Catherine Cameron

2022 – Phil Geib, Richard J. and Sandra K. Martynec

2023 – David Abbott, Stephen Plog