The J. C. Harrington Award was established in by the Society for Historical Archaeology and is named in honor of J. C. Harrington (1901–1998), a pioneer founder of historical archaeology in North America. The award is presented for a "life-time of contributions to the discipline centered on scholarship". The award is an inscribed medal. No more than one Harrington Award is presented each year.

List of medal recipients

Source
Society for Historical Archeology
*1982

J. C. Harrington Jean Carl Harrington (October 25, 1901 – April 19, 1998) was an American archaeologist best known for his work at Jamestown, Virginia and his contributions to the methodology of historical archaeology. He has been called the "father of hist ...

*1983

Charles H. Fairbanks Charles Herron Fairbanks (June 3, 1913 – July 17, 1984) was an archaeologist/anthropologist. He conducted archaeology at the Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia where he developed rigorous, painstaking field methodology. His 1967–196 ...

*1984

John L. Cotter John Lambert Cotter (6 December 1911 – 5 February 1999) was an American archaeologist whose career spanned more than sixty years and included archaeological work with the Works Progress Administration, numerous posts with the National Park Serv ...

*1985 Kenneth E. Kidd *1986 George I. Quimby *1987 Arthur Woodward*,

Stanley South Stanley A. South (February 2, 1928 - March 20, 2016) was an American archaeologist who was a major proponent of the processual archaeology movement. South's major contributions to archaeology deal in helping to legitimize it as a more scientific ...

*1988 Edward B. Jelks *1989 Bert Salwen* Carlyle Shreeve Smith *1991

Ivor Noël Hume Ivor Noël Hume, OBE (30 September 1927 – 4 February 2017) was a British-born archaeologist who did research in the United States. A former director of Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeological research program and the author of more than 20 bo ...

*1993 Bernard L. Fontana *1995 Kathleen K. Gilmore *1997

James Deetz James Deetz (February 8, 1930 – November 25, 2000) was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology. His work focused on culture change and the cultural aspects inherent in the historic and archae ...

*1999

George F. Bass George Fletcher Bass (; December 9, 1932 – March 2, 2021) was an American archaeologist. An early practitioner of underwater archaeology, he co-directed the first expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya in 1960 a ...

*2000

Roderick Sprague Roderick Sprague III (February 18, 1933 – August 20, 2012) was an American anthropologist, ethnohistorian and historical archaeologist, and the Emeritus Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Idaho in Moscow, where ...

*2001 Roberta S. Greenwood *2002 Charles E. Cleland *2003 Merrick Posnansky *2004

Kathleen A. Deagan Kathleen A. Deagan is an American archaeologist who primarily focuses on excavations in Florida and the Caribbean. Known for her historic archaeology which uncovered the colonial past of '' La Florida'', and work in St. Augustine, she has receive ...

*2005 Marcel Moussette *2006 Donald L. Hardesty *2007

William Kelso William M. Kelso, C.B.E., Ph. D., F.S.A. (born 1941), often referred to as Bill Kelso, is an American archaeologist specializing in Virginia's colonial period, particularly the Jamestown colony. Personal life A native of Lakeside, Ohio, Kelso ea ...

*2008 James E. Ayres *2009 Robert L. Schuyler *2010 Judy Bense *2011 Pilar Luna Erreguerena *2012 George Miller *2013 Mary Beaudry *2014

Theresa A. Singleton Theresa A. Singleton is an American archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans, the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States. She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the stu ...

*2015 Douglas D. Scott *2016

Mark P. Leone Mark Paul Leone (born 1940) is an American archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is interested in critical theory as it applies to archaeology and, particularly, to historical archaeology. He h ...

*2017 Leland Ferguson *2018 Julia A. King *2019 Charles E. Orser *2020 Henry M. Miller * awarded posthumously

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