J. C. Harrington Award

The J. C. Harrington Award was established in 1981 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
 * 1983 Charles H. Fairbanks
 * 1984 John L. Cotter
 * 1985 Kenneth E. Kidd
 * 1986 George I. Quimby
 * 1987 Arthur Woodward*, Stanley South
 * 1988 Edward B. Jelks
 * 1989 Bert Salwen* Carlyle Shreeve Smith
 * 1991 Ivor Noël Hume
 * 1993 Bernard L. Fontana
 * 1995 Kathleen K. Gilmore
 * 1997 James Deetz
 * 1999 George F. Bass
 * 2000 Roderick Sprague
 * 2001 Roberta S. Greenwood
 * 2002 Charles E. Cleland
 * 2003 Merrick Posnansky
 * 2004 Kathleen A. Deagan
 * 2005 Marcel Moussette
 * 2006 Donald L. Hardesty
 * 2007 William Kelso
 * 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
 * 2015 Douglas D. Scott
 * 2016 Mark P. Leone
 * 2017 Leland Ferguson
 * 2018 Julia A. King
 * 2019 Charles E. Orser
 * 2020 Henry M. Miller
 * 2022 Martha A. Zierden
 * 2023 Julia G. Costello
 * 2024 Paul R. Mullins*, David G. Orr
 * 2025 Paul A. Shackel

* awarded posthumously