The Burke Award
Presented annually at the National Conference on Cultural Property Protection, the Burke Award recognizes individuals whose accomplishments and impact on the cultural property protection community merit significant recognition by their colleagues.
The honor was created in 1994 in memory of Robert Burke, founder and first director of the Office of Protection Services at the Smithsonian Institution.
Submit your nomination for the Burke Award.
congratulations to the Recipient of the 2008 Award:
J. Andrew Wilson
Associate Director for Fire Protection and Safety
Smithsonian Institution
Previous Recipients:
- Darrell R. Wilson, Administrator, National Gallery of Art
- Robert E. Goldman , Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District, Pennsylvania
- Don Hyrcyk, Detective, Los Angeles Police Department Art Theft Team
- Robert K. Wittman, FBI, Philadelphia Division
- Kenneth Lopez, Library of Congress
- Robert Koverman, formerly of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Ton Cremers, Founder/Manager, Museum Security Network Web site
- Danny McDaniel, Director of Security and Safety, Colonial Williamsburg
- Tom Bresson, Former Deputy Director, OPS, Smithsonian Institution
- Judge Robert Hobgood, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Carol Miller, Free Library of Philadelphia
- Jay Chambers, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art
- Wilbur Faulk, Director of Security, The J. Paul Getty Trust
- Robert Bazin, FBI, Philadelphia Division
Conference Award Nomination
To nominate someone for the 2009 National Conference Award, please submit a nomination form along with a statement detailing how the nominee satisfies the following criteria:
- Maintained excellent performance in service to the field of cultural property protection, and
- Developed and/or implemented a specific project that has made a major contribution to the field of cultural property protection.
Please include specific examples.
By recognizing outstanding contributions to the cultural property protection field, the National Conference Award is intended to further the involvement and commitment of museum and library security. Therefore, members of the commercial arena of cultural property protection, including full-time consultants and vendors, are not eligible for nomination.