Campbell Awarded Lindsay Young Professorship
Mary Campbell, associate professor in the UT School of Art, has been named a Lindsay Young Professor.
Campbell is a scholar of American art history and has published with numerous university presses such as Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Routledge, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Her current research is focused on Beaford Delaney, a 20th-century painter born in Knoxville. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the School of Art’s Dale G. Cleaver Fellowship, and numerous other organizations and endowments. Her upcoming book, Beauford’s Sound, will be the first monographic study dedicated entirely to his work and the four periods of his painting: Knoxville, Boston, New York, and Paris.
She also explores Mormon art and gender studies. Campbell’s first book, Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image, was published in late 2016. It explored an unpopular photographer Charles Ellis Johnson’s impact on the late 19th-century Latter-day Saints.
Campbell is also a lawyer and member of the New York Bar. She received her JD from Yale Law School. Before coming to Knoxville in 2011, she worked in law in California, Washington, and New York. Her classes reflect her interest in intellectual property, teaching students in the school of art about the laws around creation, circulation, and projection of art.
Established in 1980 by Knoxville lawyer Lindsay Young, these endowed professorships reward faculty who are outstanding teachers, researchers, and public servants, which Campbell has demonstrated highly throughout her time with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as an art history professor and researcher. Ten awards are made each year: one in law, one in veterinary medicine, and eight in the humanities.
by Sloan Docekal