Since 2003, Friends of Arizona Archives has sponsored a $250 prize at the Arizona History Convention for the paper that demonstrates the best use of archival research, preferably using multiple collections from more than one archival repository.
AZAA is currently in the process of reformatting the Award for Excellence in Archival Research to encourage the use of archival resources in graduate education, and is looking at ways to turn it into a scholarship for history graduate students using Arizona’s archival repositories.
Past Prize Winners
- 2007 — Bob Spude, “E. G. Gage and the Tombstone Mines”
- 2006 — Carol Palmer, “Doing It for Our Daughters: Arizona Women and the ERA”
- 2005 — Michael Speelman, “A Barber of African Persuasion: Samuel Bostick in Tucson, Arizona Territory, 1868-1874″
- 2004 — Jed L. Woolworth, “Outside the Lines: Early Schools in Arizona, 1880-1930″
- 2003 — Erik Berg, “The Eagle and the Anasazi: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Aerial Survey of Prehistoric Sites in Arizona and New Mexico”
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