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History of the ASSC Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Program: 1992-2005**
Keith Stephenson, Grant-in-Aid Program Chair

It has been Sixteen years since the ASSC Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Program funded its first award in 1992. The Grant-in-Aid Program was established to assist graduate students in their thesis or dissertation research. Funds ranging from several hundred to one thousand dollars are available on a competitive basis to graduate students, both at USC and out-of-state universities, who are working on theses or dissertations that pertain to the archaeology of South Carolina. This includes both the historic and prehistoric time periods for terrestrial and underwater archaeology. The ASSC considers graduate students to be the best investments possible of research funding because they are devoting much of their time and limited personal resources to advancing our knowledge of South Carolina?s history and prehistory.

Albert C. Goodyear initiated the ASSC Grant-in-Aid Program in the fall of 1991 by soliciting donations for redistribution to graduate students the following year. Al continued as the Grant-in-Aid Program Chair from 1991-1993 and was succeeded by Chris Judge who served as Chair from 1993-1998. As the Grant-in-Aid Program Chair since that time, I am proud to announce that the ASSC has awarded a collective amount of $17, 274.94 to twenty-eight students.

Published or in-progress research includes twenty-three Master?s theses and four Ph.D. dissertations, as well as at least six articles in books and journals. Each graduate student recipient is listed by year of Grant along with the title to their Master?s thesis or Ph.D. dissertation and published article in the Grant Recipients section.