Prizes

The Archaeology Department offers a number of prizes detailed below.

Please note: prize amounts listed below are only a guide and are likely to change due to the global financial crisis.

Maureen A Byrne Memorial Prize

Established in 1978, this prize is awarded for the best honours thesis in Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, provided the student's overall result is First Class Honours.
Value = $1250 (2007)

Thomas James Dunbabin Memorial Prize

Established in 1985 by a donation of $1,000 from NCR Australia Pty Ltd on the occasion of the First Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology and to commemorate the work of Thomas James Dunbabin, Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of All Souls College University in Oxford, on Greek colonisation in Italy. Thomas James Dunbabin was a student at the University of Sydney in 1928 and 1929 before proceeding to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Awarded annually to the student who shows greatest proficiency in Roman arts and archaeology in the course Archaeology (Classical) III, provided that the student’s work is of sufficient merit.
Value = $250 (2007)

Graduates Prize in Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology

Established in 1993 as a result of solicited donations from Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology graduates. Originally established as a prize for the best result, provided it was a High Distinction, in a junior level course in Australian and/or Pacific Archaeology. Since at least 1998 it has in fact been given for the best result, provided it is an HD, in any course in Australian and/or Pacific archaeology.
Value = $100 (2007)

Dani Petocz Memorial Prize

Established in 1984 by endowment by the family and friends of Mr Dani Petocz, a graduate student in the Department of Archaeology at the time of his death in 1984.

Awarded annually on the recommendation of The Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in consultation with lecturers in Near Eastern Archaeology, to the fourth year honours student in Archaeology who writes the best essay on a Near Eastern Archaeological topic, provided that the student’s work is of sufficient merit.
Value = $750 (2007)

J R B Stewart Prize

Established in 1971 by a gift of $300 from the widow, colleagues and friends of Professor J R B Stewart to establish a prize in his memory.

Awarded annually to the best student in the Near Eastern section of the second and third year courses in archaeology.
Value = $325 (2007)

Frank Albert Prizes

In 1927 Frank Albert of Sydney donated 100 pounds to the University of Sydney in order to establish two prizes to recognise proficiency in first and second year anthropology.

This was established in Anthropology sometime prior to 1969 (the earliest letter in the current file). It was one of two prizes. When Archaeology split from Anthropology, the Frank Albert Number 2 Prize went with Archaeology and the F A Number 1 Prize remaned with Anthropology. The prizes are of equal value. Since 1981 the Number 2 Prize has been awarded to the best result in any junior course in Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology.

May be awarded annually to the student showing greatest proficiency in courses offered by the department of Anthropology.
Value = $100 (2007)