Awards & Acknowledgements:

2023 James A. Porter Book Award

2022 Chancellor’s Award for Research in Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Vanderbilt University

2021 Designing a New Tradition named Outstanding Academic Title (Choice Reviews)

In the News:

“Janelle Monáe on the Future of Black Creativity,” Insider March 24, 2023
”Janelle Monáe, Artists, Scholars, Amplify Legacy Of Loïs Mailou Jones, Recreate The Little Paris Group,” Forbes March 23, 2023

”WT Distinguished Lecture Series to Host Diverse Speakers from Across the US,” West Texas A&M News room February 9, 2023

”How an Unrealized Art Show Created an Archive of Black Women’s Art,” JSTOR Daily April 25, 2022 [online here]

“Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers,” New York Times October 28,2021 [online here]

“Rebecca VanDiver tells the story of Black Women artists” spring issue of Vanderbilt Magazine [online here]

Karen Chernick on Designing a New Tradition in the February 2021 issue of The Brooklyn Rail

Episode 52: Rebecca VanDiver on Loïs Mailou Jones,” The Great Women Artists Podcast with Katy Hessel (December 9, 2020) [Listen Here]

“Loïs Mailou Jones, an Artist and Educator who made history,” Hyperallergic (October 2020)

“Recapping Our Inaugural Research Symposium,” Lunder Institute of American Art at the Colby College Museum

2019 Nancy Malkeil Weiss Fellows Announcement, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program Press Release

'“VanDiver and Lieberman selected for NEH Summer Stipend Awards” Research News at Vanderbilt