2020–2021
Stelae Documentation: The New Monuments of Xulbe, Guatemala
Heather Hurst, Skidmore College
2018–2019
Battle at Los Batanes? Rescue Excavations at a Fortified Tiwanaku Colony in Sama, Peru
Sarah Baitzel, Washington University in St. Louis
Shifting to Sedentism: Salvaging Evidence of the Earliest Inhabitants of Quito
Eric Dyrdahl, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
2017–2018
Salvaging Sources of Power at Uci, Yucatan, Mexico
Scott Hutson, University of Kentucky
2016–2017
La Florida/Namaan: Research and Preservation at a Classic Maya Commercial Port
Joanne Baron, University of Pennsylvania
Stone Figures and Funerary Complexes: Tracing the Manteño-Guancavilca of Coastal Ecuador
Maria Masucci, Drew University
2015–2016
The Roots of the Inca State: Ritual Practice and Sacred Space at Huanacauri (Cuzco, Peru)
Steve Kosiba, University of Alabama
2014–2015
Documentation of Group R-183, an Ancient Maya Metalworking Houselot of Mayapán, Yucatan, Mexico
Elizabeth Paris, Wichita State University
2013–2014
Revitalizing Guaytan
Ana Lucia Arroyave, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period Rock Art of the Nasca Valley
Ana Nieves, Northeastern Illinois University
2012–2013
Salvage Excavations of V–05, a Siguas-Ramadas Cemetery in the Vitor Valley of Southern Peru
Maria Cecilia Lozada, University of Chicago
2011–2012
The Thorny Oyster and the Inca Empire: The Spondylus Workshop at the Inca Site of Cabeza de Vaca, Tumbes
Carolina María Vílchez Carrasco, Ministerio de Cultura, Programa Qhapaq Ñan
2010–2011
Alexander Geurds, Leiden University / University of Colorado at Boulder
The Investigation and Protection of Cave Sites in the Periphery of Pacbitun, Belize
Terry Powis
2009–2010
Exploration of an Early Archaeological Site Threatened with Destruction in Oaxaca, Mexico
Stephen Whittington, Wake Forest University
2008–2009
Saving the Palace of Atahualpa: The Late Imperial Inca Site of Caranqui, Imbabura Province, Ecuador
Tamara Bray, Wayne State University, and José Echeverría, FONSALCI, Ibarra, Ecuador
Rescuing the Site of Cerro Narrío, Ecuador
J. Scott Raymond, University of Calgary, and Florencio Delgado, Universidad de San Francisco, Quito
2007–2008
La Joya Pyramid, Central Veracruz, Mexico: Classic Period Earthen Architecture
Annick Daneels, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2006–2007
Rescue Excavations at the Tumilaca La Chimba Cemetery: Late Tiwanaku Bioarchaeology and Iconography
Patrick Ryan Williams, The Field Museum, Chicago, Michael E. Moseley, University of Florida, Maria C. Lozada, University of Chicago, and Nicola Sharratt, University of Illinois at Chicago
2005–2006
Paracas Necropolis: Salvaging Contextual Relationships
Ann H. Peters, Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University
2004–2005
Salvage, Conservation, and Consolidation at the Classic Maya Site of Tecolote, Guatemala
Sierra del Lacandón Regional Archaeology Project: Charles Golden (Director); Rene Muñoz, Andrew Scherer, Luis Romero (Co-Directors); Kimberly Machovec-Smith, Margaret Kipling, Leslie Rainer, and Arlen Heginbotham (Conservators)
2003–2004
Emergency Archaeology at Gran Pajatén
Warren Church
Uncovering Cancuen’s Royal Palace: The Political Role of Classic Maya Art
Arthur Demarest
2002–2003
The San Bartolo Mural Rescue Project
William Saturno
Excavation of the Platform of Women Weavers
Carol Mackey
2001–2002
Cueva de los Vampiros: Emergency Excavation of a Deep Rock Shelter on the Central Pacific Coast of Panama
Richard Cooke
2000–2001
Emergency Excavations at Conchapata: Huari Temple Architecture and Iconography in Ayacucho, Peru
Anita Cook, Catholic University of America, and W. H. Isbell, State University of New York, Binghamton
1998–1999
Hartmut Tschauner, Harvard University, with Lucía Balbuena Cotlear, Víctor Curay Rufasto, Natalia Guzmán Requena, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
1997–1998
The López Viejo Project, Ecuador
Elizabeth J. Currie, University of York