The DR. JOHN E. FLEMING Award

This award, the highest honor presented, recognizes museum professionals who have contributed outstanding expertise and exceptional dedication to African and African American focus museums nationally and internationally through a career spanning twenty years or more.

DR. ALVIA WARDLAW | TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

The MUSEUM LEADERSHIP Award

This award recognizes museum professionals, in the field for ten years or more, who have displayed exceptional leadership in museum work and particularly in the advancement of African and African American focus museums nationally and internationally.

ELLEN ZISHOLTZ | CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

The PACE SETTER Award

This award recognizes museum professionals who, in the field for less than ten years have demonstrated exceptional innovation and dedication to sustaining African and African American focus museums nationally and internationally.

JENNEY FAZANDE | NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM

The MARGARET T. G. BURROUGHS and CHARLES H. WRIGHT Fellowship

Two Margaret T. G. Burroughs and Charles H. Wright Fellowship are awarded: one award goes to a senior-level undergraduate or graduate student, and a second award is awarded to a first year museum professional.  Applicants must outline their contributions to the African American and/or African diaspora museum field.  Burroughs-Wright Fellowship recipients receive full conference registration for the 2017 AAAM Annual Conference in Washington, DC (August 1 - 3), three night hotel accommodations at the conference hotel, and a one year individual membership to the Association of African American Museums. 

CARLYN PINKINS | AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER OF NEW MEXICO

JESSIKA DAVIDSON | STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY