{"id":9579,"date":"2018-11-16T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:19:01","slug":"rebecca-vandiver-awarded-deans-faculty-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2018\/11\/rebecca-vandiver-awarded-deans-faculty-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca VanDiver Awarded Dean&#8217;s Faculty Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/11\/rebecca2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9582\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2018\/11\/rebecca2.jpg\" alt=\"rebecca2\" width=\"177\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, has received a Dean&#8217;s Faculty Fellowship that was recently awarded by John Geer, dean of the College of Arts and Science. VanDiver, one of seven A&amp;S tenure-track faculty members to be named a Dean&#8217;s Faculty Fellow, will hold the title for two years and receive additional support for her research.<\/p>\n<p>The Dean&#8217;s Faculty Fellows Program was launched this year to support untenured faculty in their research, scholarship, and creative expression during their probationary period. &#8220;These faculty were selected because of their scholarly accomplishments and the promise they show to make an impact in their respective fields,&#8221; said Dean Geer. &#8220;We look forward to continuing this program in the coming years as a way of providing additional support to our junior faculty and helping to advance their creativity and discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Named a 2018-2019 Faculty Fellow with the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, VanDiver is currently participating in a year-long interdisciplinary faculty seminar to explore the significance of printed words and images in early modern Europe and North America. She teaches courses on modern\/contemporary African American and African art and visual culture.<\/p>\n<p>Her research, centered on 20th-century black women artists, African American artistic engagements with Africa, and the politics of exhibition and display, has appeared in\u00a0<em>Archives of American Art Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Space and Culture<\/em>, <em>Callaloo<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Transition<\/em>.\u00a0 Her book-length manuscript on Lo\u00efs Mailou Jones will be published by the Pennsylvania State University Press under the title <em>Negotiating Traditions: Lo\u00efs Mailou Jones and the Composite Aesthetics of Blackness<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, has received a Dean&#8217;s Faculty Fellowship that was recently awarded by John Geer, dean of the College of Arts and Science. VanDiver, one of seven A&amp;S tenure-track faculty members to be named a Dean&#8217;s Faculty Fellow, will hold the title for two years and receive additional support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":9582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hart","category-news","category-vanderbilt-university","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}