Kellie Jones, member of the working group Engendering the Archive and Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from her alma mater Amherst College to recognize her leadership in the field of Art History.
She has also been awarded the Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award following the publication of her latest book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s.