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.
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
2024 – Bill Broyles, Gayle Hartmann