ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
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In 1902 Kelsey accepted the invitation of President John Williams White to become secretary of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Urged by White to extend the Institute to the Pacific, Kelsey in 1903 helped inaugurate new societies in Colorado, Utah, and California. In 1907 he was elected to his second national office, becoming president of the American Philological Association (APA).
On December 27, 1907, Kelsey delivered a 45-minute address to the APA and AIA in joint session and three days later was elected president of the Archaeological Institute. In the course of his five-year presidency, membership almost tripled, the Department of Canada (numbering several societies) was set up, the overall total of societies increased from 17 to 40, and the affiliated schools (at Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, and Santa Fe) flourished. Research projects were begun in Guatemala and at Cyrene, where work was derailed by the assassination of Herbert Fletcher De Cou, the expedition's epigrapher, on the brink of the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911.
Publication was carried forward on the Institute's earlier work at Assos in Turkey, and the American Journal of Archaeology continued to be favorably received. An early exponent of outreach to the general public, Kelsey initiated the publication of a new nontechnical AIA periodical, Art and Archaeology.
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Act of Incorporation of the AIA, May 26, 1906 Kelsey is listed among the participants Kelsey Museum Library
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F. W. Kelsey's diary of 1904. Mentions meeting with Teddy Roosevelt, who approved the Act of Incorporation Bentley Historical Library, Kelsey Museum Papers
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Minutes of a Special Council Meeting of the AIA in 1907. Kelsey appears ex officio as secretary of the AIA Kelsey Museum Library
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Report of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for 1912–1913. Kelsey appears as president of the AIA Kelsey Museum Library
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Insignia of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) AIA website
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Charles Eliot Norton, a founder of the AIA Notable Names Database
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View of excavations at Cyrene Trip Advisor website
